The Hollies, Main Street, Golspie is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984.

The Hollies, Main Street, Golspie

WRENN ID
grey-beam-starling
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 March 1984
OS grid reference
NC 836 001
Coordinates
57.97577, -3.96804
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Hollies is a house dating from the 1840s and 1850s. It is a two-storey building with a symmetrical, three-bay south-facing street facade. The walls are harled with ashlar margins. The central bay of the south front is slightly advanced, featuring ground and first floor windows and an apex stack. The outer bays have similar fenestration, and the ground and first floors of the west gable also have windows. A lower, two-storey, two-bay rear wing is present, with a gabled porch in the re-entrant angle. The windows have 12 panes of glass. The building features corniced end stacks and a slate roof with projecting eaves. A drystone garden wall is also present.

Local climate

The Hollies, Main Street, Golspie receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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