The Village Murray M Smythe Shop, Dunbeath is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984.

The Village Murray M Smythe Shop, Dunbeath

WRENN ID
gentle-cellar-woodpecker
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 160 298
Coordinates
58.24946, -3.43167
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Village Murray M Smythe Shop is a house and shop dating from around 1870 in Dunbeath. It is a two-storey, three-bay building with a two-storey, three-bay wing to the rear. The construction is of rubble, with tooled dressings and contrasting painted margins to the front facade. The central front door has been enlarged, with wider windows on either side. Three gabletted dormers break the roofline. The windows are largely 4-pane sashes, and there are chimney stacks at the ends of the building, with a slate roof.

Local climate

The Village Murray M Smythe Shop, 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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