Flowerburn Cottage, 12 High Street, Fortrose is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Flowerburn Cottage, 12 High Street, Fortrose

WRENN ID
solitary-storey-quill
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 March 1971
Type
Cottage
Address
Flowerburn Cottage, 12 High Street, Fortrose, IV10 8TW
OS grid reference
NH 726 565
Coordinates
57.58055, -4.13178
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Flowerburn Cottage, located at 12 High Street in Fortrose, dates from around 1838. It is constructed of rubble and features a single storey, a basement, and an attic, with a three-bay façade. The central bay, which is slightly advanced, has an ashlar finish and is topped with a parapet. The entrance consists of an architraved door that is accessed by a flight of steps with cast-iron balusters. The ground floor windows are tripartite in the outer bays.

An addition, designed by Ross & Macbeth in 1887, is a single-storey and attic structure with a slightly advanced piend roof at the east gable. In 1977, large swept dormers replaced the original piended dormers on the main block. The 1887 addition extends northward to Academy Street, where a courtyard at the rear is enclosed from the street by a high wall. The roofs are slated, and there is modern glazing in the ground floor windows at the garden front, along with modern roof lights on both roof slopes.

Local climate

Flowerburn Cottage, 12 High Street, Fortrose sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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