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

1 Castle Street, Dornoch

WRENN ID
turning-sill-bone
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 March 1984
Address
1 Castle Street, Dornoch, IV25 3SR
OS grid reference
NH 794 897
Coordinates
57.88098, -4.03447
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Sule Skerry is a pair of two-storey, three-bay houses built in the earlier 19th century. They are constructed from dressed coursed rubble with ashlar margins and have rubble flanks and a rubble rear. Each house features central doors and 12-pane glazing, with end stacks, although the west gable stack is missing. The roofs are covered with slate.

No. 1 has four windows in the west gable and two additional windows in a modern rear addition. No. 2 includes two modern dormers.

Local climate

1 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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