Steading, Mains Of Lethen is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 November 1983.

Steading, Mains Of Lethen

WRENN ID
ghost-lancet-blackthorn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 November 1983
OS grid reference
NH 938 519
Coordinates
57.54534, -3.77597
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Estate Office at Mains Of Lethen is an earlier 19th century, two-storey farm square that faces southeast. It features a parallel two-storey range of estate cottages opposite. The building is constructed from coursed rubble with tooled ashlar dressings.

The steading has a nearly symmetrical ten-bay frontage with doorways located in the outer bays, each with loft doors above, although one has been converted into a window. It includes paired segmental-headed entrances, loft vents, and ridge stacks, topped with a roof made of corrugated asbestos and slate.

The cottages consist of a fourteen-bay range that includes both two- and three-bay cottages. They have smaller windows on the first floor, with twelve- and nine-pane glazing, and feature ridge and end stacks, all under a slate roof.

Local climate

Steading, Mains Of Lethen sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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