Salmon Bothy, Portormin Harbour, Dunbeath is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1996. Bothy. 2 related planning applications.

Salmon Bothy, Portormin Harbour, Dunbeath

WRENN ID
late-spindle-clover
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 February 1996
Type
Bothy
OS grid reference
ND 166 293
Coordinates
58.245, -3.42126
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Salmon Bothy at Portormin Harbour in Dunbeath is an earlier 19th-century building that may have undergone partial interior refitting. It is a long, single-storey structure with three bays and crow-stepped gables, constructed from rubble.

On the west elevation, the entrance features a door at the center, flanked by a small window to the left and larger windows in the outer bays. The north and south elevations have blank gables with apex stacks, with the northern stack partly built into the headland. The east elevation includes two windows on the south side.

The building has timber glazing, with bars and shutters on the store. It features coped stone stacks and a slated roof that includes a cast-iron rooflight.

Inside, the bothy consists of two main compartments divided by a stone cross wall, both with flagged floors. The larger southern compartment serves as an equipment store and has a hearth in the southeast corner. The remaining domestic apartment contains two pairs of box bunk beds along the east wall, as well as a foreman's office and an additional bunk bed in the screened southwest quarter.

Local climate

Salmon Bothy, Portormin Harbour, Dunbeath receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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