Rosskeen Free Church is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983. Church. 2 related planning applications.
Rosskeen Free Church
- WRENN ID
- wild-threshold-sable
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Rosskeen Free Church, IV18 0PL
- OS grid reference
- NH 683 702
- Coordinates
- 57.70239, -4.21134
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Rosskeen Free Church is a later 19th-century building designed in the style of A. Maitland, showcasing Gothic architecture. It is constructed from stugged, sneck coursed rubble with contrasting tooled ashlar dressings. The church features an imposing gabled south front that includes a shallow gabled centre porch. This porch has a recessed pointed and moulded entrance, with a large window above it that displays geometric tracery.
Flanking the porch are lancet windows and angle pilasters that terminate in pinnacles. To the east, there is a projecting canted gallery stair bay, while to the west stands a five-stage octagonal tower topped with a spire. The tower features lancet windows in the lower three stages, and the upper two stages have louvred belfry openings that alternate with flat buttress pilasters, which also end in pinnacles. The spire is facetted and includes lucarnes, topped with a weathervane.
Local climate
Rosskeen Free Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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