James Fraser Shop, Main Street, Golspie is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984. 2 related planning applications.
James Fraser Shop, Main Street, Golspie
- WRENN ID
- quiet-soffit-plum
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1984
- Address
- James Fraser Shop, Main Street, Golspie, KW10 6TG
- OS grid reference
- NH 832 999
- Coordinates
- 57.97363, -3.97571
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dated 1906, the James Fraser Shop is an asymmetrical two-storey and attic corner shop and dwelling. The building is constructed of rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. The corner entrance has a wide shop front within a canted angle and features moulded jambs, with a three-windowed oriel above. A wide shop window is located on the ground floor of the Main Street elevation, alongside a slightly smaller window to the left. The first floor of the Main Street elevation has a tripartite window near the centre, with a bipartite window to the left, and a lunette in the attic gable. The gables feature exaggerated scroll skewputts, flanked by single swept dormers.
The return elevation to Fountain Street has a ground floor shop window. A single-storey and attic, two-bay rear wing includes an entrance and a large, piended dormer breaking the wallhead.
Original glazing remains to the shop windows, and multi-pane glazing also features in the upper portion of the windows, in the upper sashes of the dwelling, and in the lunette. Original down-pipes are initialled AA and dated 1906. Further original features include corniced end stacks and slate roofs. The building occupies a corner site with Fountain Street and displays a monogram AA and the date 1906.
Local climate
James Fraser Shop, Main 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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