Fortrose Free Church, High Street, Fortrose is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983. Church. 2 related planning applications.
Fortrose Free Church, High Street, Fortrose
- WRENN ID
- first-flue-wagtail
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Fortrose Free Church, High Street, Fortrose, IV10 8TX
- OS grid reference
- NH 727 567
- Coordinates
- 57.58307, -4.12908
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Fortrose Free Church, built between 1895 and 1898 by John Robertson, is a decorated Gothic structure located on High Street in Fortrose. The church is constructed of snecked rubble with ashlar dressings and features a broad, five-bay rectangular layout, with the fifth bay designed as a quasi-transept.
The southeast gable is accentuated with pinnacled buttresses and includes a gabled entrance porch beneath a four-light window. At the southeast end, there is an apsidal projection on the right and a four-stage tower on the left, which has octagonal pinnacled buttresses at the angles of the upper two stages and is topped by a tall octagonal spire.
The flanks of the church are buttressed and contain two-light windows. Inside, the church retains its original fittings, including a bowed gallery front. Additionally, there are polygonal gate piers and iron railings surrounding the property.
Local climate
Fortrose Free Church, High Street, Fortrose sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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