Laurel House, High Street, Cromarty is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 December 1980. House.

Laurel House, High Street, Cromarty

WRENN ID
gentle-tin-elm
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 December 1980
Type
House
OS grid reference
NH 786 674
Coordinates
57.68071, -4.03588
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Laurel House, located on High Street in Cromarty, was built in 1828. It is a tall two-storey house with an attic and features three bays, with a central panelled door. The exterior is made of coursed rubble with polished ashlar dressings, while the rear and side elevations are constructed from random rubble with some harling. The front windows have moulded architraves, and the first-floor architraved windows are connected by a cill band. There is also an eaves band and three wallhead segmental-headed dormers. The roof is slate-covered. There are additions at the rear of the house. The property is complemented by square ashlar corniced gate piers topped with domed caps and ball finials, along with a low coped wall featuring cast-iron railings.

Local climate

Laurel House, High Street, Cromarty receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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