Town House, 7 Cathedral Square, Fortrose is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. Town house.
Town House, 7 Cathedral Square, Fortrose
- WRENN ID
- quartered-loggia-rye
- 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
- Town house
- OS grid reference
- NH 726 565
- Coordinates
- 57.58139, -4.13123
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building, known as the Town House, is located at 7 Cathedral Square in Fortrose and dates from the early 19th century. It is constructed of rubble with broached ashlar dressings.
The structure has two storeys, a basement, and an attic. The front facing Cathedral Square features three bays, with a central door that has a later cast-iron porch, which is accessed by a flight of steps that over-sail the basement and are supported by cast-iron balusters. The outer bays have full-height bows with tripartite windows. The building is topped with a crenellated parapet and has three piended dormers.
On the High Street elevation, the building also has two storeys and an attic with three bays and two piended dormers. The roof is slated, and there is some quality plasterwork present in the interior.
Local climate
Town House, 7 Cathedral Square, 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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