Steading, D Miller's Cottage, Reay is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 April 1971.
Steading, D Miller's Cottage, Reay
- WRENN ID
- sacred-gateway-poplar
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1971
- OS grid reference
- NC 956 645
- Coordinates
- 58.55657, -3.79488
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
D Miller's Cottage in Reay is an early to mid-19th century single-storey range of cottages that has been converted into one dwelling. The building features nine irregular bays and is constructed of whitewashed rubble with tooled rubble dressings. Near the center, there is a projecting gabled porch, and it includes four doorways, with one located in each end bay. A cheese press is built into the wall at the west end. The roof has a Caithness slate covering, with ridge and end stacks and an irregular ridge line.
Adjacent to the cottage is a steading range, also dating from the early to mid-19th century and constructed of whitewashed rubble. This single-storey structure has six irregular bays, which include a pair of former two-bay dwellings. It features three doorways and three small windows, along with ridge and end stacks, and a Welsh slate roof.
Local climate
Steading, D Miller's Cottage, Reay sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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