Carn Dearg, Main Street, Golspie is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984. 1 related planning application.
Carn Dearg, Main Street, Golspie
- WRENN ID
- muted-cellar-reed
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1984
- Address
- Carn Dearg, Main Street, Golspie, KW10 6TG
- OS grid reference
- NH 831 999
- Coordinates
- 57.97313, -3.97639
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dated 1867, Carn Dearg is a two-storey and attic building of Scottish Renaissance style, prominently situated on Main Street in Golspie. It presents a three-bay frontage to the northwest, distinguished by a curved corner extending to the west, where it is corbelled above the first floor to create a large crowstepped gable. The exterior is constructed of coursed, stugged rubble with contrasting, tooled sandstone dressings.
The ground floor features a shop front with a round-headed doorway, paired with two similarly detailed shop windows to the left, and a single flat-headed window to the right. The first floor includes one bipartite window, with all other windows being simple sash and case designs, featuring mainly 12-pane glazing. Two gabletted and bargeboarded dormers with sliding sashes on both the front and rear sides are set into the roof. Corniced end stacks rise above the slate roof.
A central, circular stair turret with a conical roof is located at the rear of the building. A later two-storey wing extends to the rear, providing a frontage onto a side lane. The building is initialled “MPJ.” It first appeared on the 1873 Ordnance Survey map as the Post Office. The statutory address is now associated with the Golspie Main Street Co-op Drapery.
Local climate
Carn Dearg, Main Street, Golspie receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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