The Old Manse, Croick is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 December 1979. 1 related planning application.
The Old Manse, Croick
- WRENN ID
- turning-gallery-wax
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1979
- OS grid reference
- NH 454 914
- Coordinates
- 57.88532, -4.60872
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Manse in Croick is a parliamentary manse, constructed in 1827. It was built to the designs of Thomas Telford, with James Smith acting as the contractor. The building is a single-storey, H-shaped structure with five bays. It is harled, with margins of tooled ashlar. The south elevation features a central entrance, now with a modern glazed door, flanked by windows, with advanced flanking bays. Later infilling has been added to the rear of the building. The windows are fitted with four-pane glazing, and the roof is slate, with paired, corniced ridge stacks. References to the building appear in the Telford Atlas of 1838 and the New Statistical Account of 1840.
Local climate
The Old Manse, Croick sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 79 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 61 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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