The Retreat, Church Street, Cromarty is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. House.

The Retreat, Church Street, Cromarty

WRENN ID
spare-turret-plover
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 March 1971
Type
House
Address
The Retreat, Church Street, Cromarty, IV11 8XA
OS grid reference
NH 790 673
Coordinates
57.67961, -4.02993
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Retreat is an early 18th century L-shaped house that has two storeys and an attic. It features a two-bay gable with a door and a wing facing the street. The entrance is located at the re-entrant southeast angle. The exterior is finished with harled walls and chamfered ashlar margins. The house has a steeply pitched slate roof with crowsteps, a moulded eaves course, roll moulded chimney copes, and segmental headed dormers.

Local climate

The Retreat, Church Street, Cromarty receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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