Parish Hall, 40 Novar Road, Alness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983. Parish hall.

Parish Hall, 40 Novar Road, Alness

WRENN ID
sunken-beam-bramble
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
31 August 1983
Type
Parish hall
OS grid reference
NH 652 695
Coordinates
57.69519, -4.26304
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Parish Hall on Novar Road in Alness is an early 19th-century building that was originally a dwelling. It is two stories high and has three bays, with a central door that is obscured by a later added projecting porch with a piended roof. The exterior is harled and features painted ashlar margins. There is a single-storey, single-bay addition on the east gable, which has four-pane glazing and corniced end stacks. The roof is covered with slate.

Local climate

Parish Hall, 40 Novar Road, Alness sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 46 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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