Harbour, Castlehill is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. Harbour, boathouse.
Harbour, Castlehill
- WRENN ID
- brooding-keystone-ridge
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- Type
- Harbour, boathouse
- OS grid reference
- ND 197 686
- Coordinates
- 58.59808, -3.38164
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Harbour at Castlehill is an early 19th-century small flagstone harbour featuring a stilling basin. Some of the flagstones are set vertically, and wide quays flank both basins, although there is some modern cement render surfacing present.
Adjacent to the harbour is a long rectangular boathouse, also from the early to mid-19th century, located on the east side. This boathouse is constructed of rubble with roughly tooled rubble dressings. It has a wide entrance on the west gable, which faces the harbour, featuring a curved wooden lintel and double leaf plank doors fitted with long blacksmith iron hinges. Above the entrance, there is a small loft window. The boathouse is topped with simple square apex finials and has a Caithness slate roof.
Local climate
Harbour, Castlehill receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% 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 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Boathouse, Harbour, Castlehill
- Ice House, Castletown
- Mill, Castletown
- Castletown Drill Hall, Main Street, Castletown
- Boundary walls and gatepiers, Castletown Drill Hall, Main Street, Castletown
- The Old Reading Room, Castletown
- Borgie House, Castleton
- Gate Lodge, Olrig House
- Mains Of Olrig
- Olrig House