Village Shop And Post Office, Strontian is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 May 1985. Shop, post office.

Village Shop And Post Office, Strontian

WRENN ID
other-rubble-summer
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 May 1985
Type
Shop, post office
OS grid reference
NM 816 611
Coordinates
56.6913, -5.56807
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Village Shop and Post Office in Strontian is an earlier 19th-century building that features a long, single-storey, seven-bay range situated on a sloping site. The structure has stores in a raised basement at the rear southwest (seaward) elevation. It is constructed from squared, pinned rubble with roughly tooled rubble dressings and contrasting painted margins.

The northeast elevation faces the road and includes three doors and four windows, with a two-bay dwelling at each outer end. There is a small raised ground floor window in the southeast return gable, along with some irregular raised ground floor fenestration at the rear. The southwest elevation features four segmental-headed stores, one of which is blocked with a later door inserted, and a secondary entrance that opens onto a walled yard and the shore. The building has ridge and end stacks, crowsteps, and a slate roof.

Local climate

Village Shop And Post Office, Strontian sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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