Fishery Office, Lybster Harbour is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984.

Fishery Office, Lybster Harbour

WRENN ID
brooding-baluster-alder
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 243 349
Coordinates
58.29669, -3.29219
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Fishery Office is a two-storey building dating from the earlier to mid-19th century, situated within Lybster Harbour. It is a three-bay structure built of whitewashed rubble. The east-facing facade features a central door flanked to the left by longer ground-floor windows with lying-pane glazing. First-floor windows have four panes of glazing. A recessed area with a barometer is located to the left of the central door. The building has corniced end stacks and a slate roof. The statutory address is Lybster Harbour, Fishery Office.

Local climate

Fishery Office, Lybster Harbour 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 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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