Timaru House Hotel, Strathpeffer is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983.
Timaru House Hotel, Strathpeffer
- WRENN ID
- western-dormer-sage
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- OS grid reference
- NH 484 584
- Coordinates
- 57.59047, -4.53672
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Timaru House Hotel is a late 19th-century house of symmetrical design, three bays wide. It is a two-storey building constructed of bullfaced rubble with contrasting ashlar dressings. The central recessed glazed entrance is flanked by projecting rectangular bay windows with pilasters, these being linked by a columned arcade topped with a decorative panelled timber parapet. An arcaded balcony, with panelled detailing, extends across the entire front facade. The gables are panelled, featuring shield ornamentation in the outer bays. The building is characterised by bracketted eaves, finials and ornate barge boards to the end gables. Round-headed windows are located in the first floor of the end gables, supported by cill and string courses below. The windows are fitted with two panes of glazing. A corniced end stack is present, along with a slate roof. A long, single-storey wing extends to the rear. The building was formerly known as Ardgour. The statutory address is Strathpeffer Timaru.
Local climate
Timaru House Hotel, Strathpeffer sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 46 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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