Middle Cottage, Mrs Mackay's House, The Village, Dunbeath is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984.
Middle Cottage, Mrs Mackay's House, The Village, Dunbeath
- WRENN ID
- lunar-remnant-thrush
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- OS grid reference
- ND 161 298
- Coordinates
- 58.24919, -3.43082
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Middle Cottage, also known as Mrs Mackay's House, is a circa 1870 south-facing terrace of three houses linked to Tigh a Mhuilin at the western end. The two eastern houses are internally linked as a single dwelling, with the westernmost house also joined to Tigh a Mhuilin internally.
Mrs Mackay's House comprises three single-storey houses with attics, and three bays. The houses are constructed of rubble with tooled dressings, featuring centre doors. Three gabletted dormers rise through the roof, with four-pane glazing. The building has ridge and end stacks, and a slate roof. A modern single-storey, single-bay addition has been made to the east gable.
Tigh a Mhuilinn, dating to the late 19th century, is a single-storey and attic house with a slightly higher roofline and three bays. It is also of rubble construction with cast concrete dressings, a centre door flanked by bipartites, and bargeboarded dormers containing two bipartite windows that rise through the roof. It contains two-pane glazing, end stacks, and a slate roof.
The terrace faces south overlooking the Dunbeath Water and is part of a wider estate village. The properties are not numbered.
Local climate
Middle Cottage, Mrs Mackay's House, The Village, Dunbeath receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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