Police Station, Castle Street, Dornoch is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984. Police station. 1 related planning application.

Police Station, Castle Street, Dornoch

WRENN ID
old-corner-vermeil
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 March 1984
Type
Police station
Address
Police Station, Castle Street, Dornoch, IV25 3SD
OS grid reference
NH 798 895
Coordinates
57.8795, -4.02812
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The police station on Castle Street in Dornoch is a late 19th-century building that stands two stories high and features three bays. Its front is made of tooled ashlar, while the sides are constructed from coursed rubble. The building has a shallow, advanced central gable bay that includes a door set in a segmental-headed recess, flanked by lights. Above this door is a segmental-headed window with a hoodmould. The outer windows on the first floor extend through the wallhead and are topped with finialled gablets. At the rear, there is a two-storeyed gabled wing accompanied by a single-storey addition, both featuring four-pane glazing. The structure has crowsteps, corniced end stacks, and slate roofs, along with a low coped garden wall.

Local climate

Police Station, Castle Street, Dornoch 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 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 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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