Female School, Rosslyn Street, Brora is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984. Former school, dwelling.

Female School, Rosslyn Street, Brora

WRENN ID
muffled-balcony-river
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 March 1984
Type
Former school, dwelling
OS grid reference
NC 903 039
Coordinates
58.01096, -3.85808
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The former Female School on Rosslyn Street in Brora is a mid-19th century building that has been converted into a dwelling. It is a two-storey structure with an attic and features a symmetrical three-bay design. The exterior is finished with harl pointed rubble and has tooled dressings. The south front has a central door, with single ground floor windows located in the east and west gables, and a first-floor window in the east gable. The windows have 16-pane glazing. The building also includes two wide barge-boarded gabled dormers with multi-pane casements, coped end stacks, and a slate roof. Additionally, there is a roughly coped rubble garden wall surrounding the property.

Local climate

Female School, Rosslyn Street, Brora receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% 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 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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