Lybster Harbour is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. 1 related planning application.
Lybster Harbour
- WRENN ID
- errant-doorway-indigo
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- OS grid reference
- ND 244 348
- Coordinates
- 58.29582, -3.29023
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Lybster Harbour is a harbour complex dated to 1849, with significant rebuilding work in 1882. The harbour consists of four basins constructed from flagstone rubble masonry, with some areas rendered more recently. A small, octagonal lighthouse with a domed lantern stands nearby. Two storehouses adjoin one another, both built of rubble masonry with rubble dressings.
The western storehouse is three storeys high with six symmetrical bays. The store immediately to the west is two storeys high with six bays. Both storehouses have corrugated asbestos roofs. The western part of the store ranges was apparently used as a salmon fisherman's bothy until after World War 2, while the eastern part functioned as a herring fishing station, reportedly including a separate ladies water closet at the end of the building.
Local climate
Lybster Harbour receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 1 application
- 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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