United Free Church, Nigg is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. Hall.
United Free Church, Nigg
- WRENN ID
- fallow-hearth-dew
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- Type
- Hall
- OS grid reference
- NH 805 721
- Coordinates
- 57.72343, -4.00637
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The United Free Church in Nigg, dated 1844, is a simple rectangular building constructed of coursed red rubble with tooled margins. It features three-bay flanks that include three round-headed keystoned windows, each with wooden centre Y-mullions. At the center of the east gable is a projecting tower, which has margined stages and an entrance in its square base. This tower is topped by two small octagonal stages and a drum with a moulded eaves cornice, an ogee slated roof, and a weathervane. The tower also includes two blind occuli and three louvred belfry windows.
The main entrance consists of double-leafed panelled doors, flanked by two small piended wings that have 12-pane windows, as well as outer round-headed windows that match those on the flanks. Inside, there are two blocked gallery windows. The west apex is adorned with a ball finial, and the building has a slate roof. There is a modern extension at the rear.
Local climate
United Free Church, Nigg receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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