Gairloch, Main Street, Golspie is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984.

Gairloch, Main Street, Golspie

WRENN ID
crooked-forge-hyssop
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 March 1984
OS grid reference
NH 831 999
Coordinates
57.97308, -3.97759
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

These are a pair of later 19th century cottages, forming an L-plan arrangement. They were built as part of the Sutherland Estate cottages. The cottages are constructed of rubble stone with tooled rubble dressings.

Glen Coul has a single storey and attic layout, with three bays, the central bay featuring a door concealed behind a later gabled and glazed timber porch, and a pair of gabled and bargeboarded dormers. Gairloch has a projecting wing to the south, with the entrance situated in the re-entrant angle. It features a wide gabled bay containing a wide ground floor centre window and an attic window above. Sliding multi-pane sash windows are present throughout. The roofs are slate, with tall corniced end, ridge, and lateral stacks, and bargeboarding.

Local climate

Gairloch, Main Street, Golspie 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 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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