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

Church School, Church Street, Golspie

WRENN ID
lost-rubble-coral
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 826 995
Coordinates
57.96982, -3.98471
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The building comprises a church school dated 1844, situated on Church Street, Golspie, along with a former school building. It has group value in relation to its ecclesiastical use.

The church school is a simple T-plan building with a symmetrical south elevation featuring six bays. It is constructed of red rubble stone with tooled rubble dressings. Entrances are located in the outer bays, with four windows in total, the centre pair being longer. Matching long windows are present in each gable, and much of the original lattice pane glazing remains. The building has modern doors, shaped finials, and a slate roof. The interior has been re-cast.

Adjacent to the church school is a single-storey, four-bay school building also constructed of rubble. It features an entrance in the outer (east) bay and three windows with lattice glazing. An apex stack and slate roof are present. A coped drystone wall surrounds the school.

A single-storey, three-bay dwelling, likely the school-master's house, adjoins the school, but has been considerably altered and is not listed. References to the building appear in Ewing, Annals of the Free Church ii (1914) p220.

Local climate

Church School, Church 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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