Servants' Tunnel, Cromarty House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 April 1981. Tunnel.

Servants' Tunnel, Cromarty House

WRENN ID
hushed-banister-flax
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 April 1981
Type
Tunnel
OS grid reference
NH 793 670
Coordinates
57.67694, -4.0248
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Servants' Tunnel at Cromarty House is a later 19th-century structure, measuring 200 feet long. It features a vaulted design that connects the road to Cromarty with the side entrance designated for servants at Cromarty House. The tunnel is paved in the center with cobbles, with additional cobbles on each side and occasional circular air vents. The large vaulted entrance is equipped with iron gates and flanking walls. Inside the entrance, there are vaulted chambers on the left and right, resembling icehouses, each originally having two doorways that are now blocked and were checked for close-fitting doors.

Local climate

Servants' Tunnel, Cromarty House receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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