Free Church Of Scotland Church, Church Street, Golspie is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984.
Free Church Of Scotland Church, Church Street, Golspie
- WRENN ID
- vacant-turret-jay
- 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
- NH 827 995
- Coordinates
- 57.9698, -3.98429
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dated 1844, the Free Church of Scotland Church is a simple T-plan building on Church Street in Golspie. The church is constructed of red rubble with tooled rubble dressings. The south elevation is symmetrical, with six bays. There are entrances in the outer bays, and four windows, the central pair being longer. Similar long windows are found in each gable, most of the original lattice pane glazing surviving. The church has modern doors, shaped finials, and a slate roof.
The interior has been re-cast.
Adjacent to the church is a single-storey, four-bay former school building, also constructed of rubble. It has an entrance in the outer (east) bay, three windows with lattice glazing, an apex stack, and a slate roof. A coped drystone wall is present.
The church is currently in ecclesiastical use. A schoolroom adjoins a single-storey, three-bay dwelling, probably the school-master's house, which has been significantly altered and is not listed. Ewing's Annals of the Free Church (1914) provides further details.
Local climate
Free Church Of Scotland Church, Church 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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