Town Hall, Church Street, Fortrose is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983. Town hall.
Town Hall, Church Street, Fortrose
- WRENN ID
- plain-rubble-yew
- 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
- Town hall
- OS grid reference
- NH 726 567
- Coordinates
- 57.5825, -4.13159
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Town Hall on Church Street in Fortrose was built between 1839 and 1841 and features a galleried rectangular design with Gothic details. The south front and east gable are made of ashlar stone, while the north front and west gable are constructed from rubble. The south front has four bays, with tall central windows that originally illuminated the pulpit. The outer bays contain doors with gallery windows above. All openings are pointed arched and include hood-moulds, with astragals at the windows featuring intersecting traceried tops and intersecting traceried fanlights above the doors. There is a moulded eaves course and a slated roof. The interior has been stripped of its gallery and pulpit, and there is a single-storey modern extension on the north side.
Local climate
Town Hall, Church 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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