Rear Cottage, Ruard, Stafford Street, Helmsdale is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 December 1979.

Rear Cottage, Ruard, Stafford Street, Helmsdale

WRENN ID
brooding-plaster-snow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 December 1979
OS grid reference
ND 029 154
Coordinates
58.11734, -3.64883
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a house, likely dating from around 1838, situated in Helmsdale. It is a two-storey and attic, three-bay building constructed from coursed rubble with tooled ashlar dressings, while the side walls are harled. The central bay is slightly recessed and features a door that is now concealed behind a late 19th-century projecting porch with a bargeboard. The windows have hood moulds and margins, and there are two late 19th-century canted dormers with 12-pane glazing. A single-storey, two-bay wing extends to the rear, and a modern glazed sun parlour has been added to the east gable. The building has corniced end stacks and a slate roof.

To the rear of the main house is a single-storey, three-bay service cottage, also built of rubble with tooled rubble dressings, a central door, 12-pane glazing, end stacks, and a slate roof. A coped rubble retaining wall is also present.

The building's context includes Helmsdale Church of Scotland (built in 1838 with alterations in 1896), which stands opposite the manse and is no longer in ecclesiastical use.

Local climate

Rear Cottage, Ruard, Stafford Street, Helmsdale 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 lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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