Ben Griam, Strathy is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 December 1979.
Ben Griam, Strathy
- WRENN ID
- former-flagstone-spring
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1979
- OS grid reference
- NC 835 651
- Coordinates
- 58.55914, -4.00391
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ben Griam is a T-plan church built in 1826 by Thomas Telford, now a private dwelling. It is constructed of rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. The north (front) elevation features a central paired depressed arched window, flanked by smaller, similarly detailed windows. Large windows of a similar design are present in the east and west gables, and in the central wing at the rear (south). A central entrance is located in the rear wing. The windows are fitted with 6-pane glazing. The building has a concrete tiled roof, topped by a bellcote with stumpy finials at the west apex and a ball finial at the east. The site is enclosed by a coped drystone wall.
The design deviates slightly from Telford’s usual plan by incorporating a rear entrance and small bay windows on the north elevation, rather than the typical paired doors. Strathy was described as a "populous rural hamlet" in 1858. References to the building can be found in Telford's Atlas (1838) and the Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland (c. 1858). This is now a private house and is not open to the public.
Local climate
Ben Griam, Strathy sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% 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 0.3°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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