Commercial Hotel, Grey's Place, Lybster is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984.

Commercial Hotel, Grey's Place, Lybster

WRENN ID
scattered-ashlar-pearl
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 November 1984
OS grid reference
ND 247 355
Coordinates
58.30248, -3.28482
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Commercial Hotel, located on the east side of Grey’s Place in Lybster, is a mid-19th century dwelling constructed as a symmetrical two-storey and attic, five-bay design. An entrance is positioned within the second and fourth bays. The building is dry-dashed with painted margins, and features two-pane glazing. Dormers are visible as two segmental headed structures, with end chimney stacks rising above a slate roof.

Local climate

Commercial Hotel, Grey's Place, Lybster receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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