Steading, Ivy Cottage, Bettyhill is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984.
Steading, Ivy Cottage, Bettyhill
- WRENN ID
- weathered-wicket-sunrise
- 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
- NC 725 623
- Coordinates
- 58.53034, -4.19079
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an earlier 19th century, two-storey, three-bay cottage with a small, single-storey, L-plan rubble steading located to the rear. The cottage is constructed of squared rubble with tooled rubble dressings. The centre bay is slightly advanced and gabled, featuring a corniced door on the ground floor, with a window directly above. The windows are fitted with 12-pane and 16-pane glazing. There are chimney stacks at each end and the roof is tiled with projecting eaves at the gables.
The building is said to have been the house built for the first factor of the Sutherland Estates. By 1813, the entire parish of Farr was owned by the Sutherland family. References to this history can be found in Donald Omand’s The Sutherland Book (1981), page 201.
Local climate
Steading, Ivy Cottage, Bettyhill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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