20-22 Novar Road, Alness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983. Terrace.
20-22 Novar Road, Alness
- WRENN ID
- other-balcony-thrush
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- Type
- Terrace
- OS grid reference
- NH 653 695
- Coordinates
- 57.69581, -4.26118
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
20-22 Novar Road is an earlier 19th century, two-storey terrace building that features a symmetrical design with seven bays. The central bay has a basket-arched pend, with three-bay dwellings on either side, each having a central door. The building is constructed of rubble with rendered margins and harled flanks and rear. Above the pend arch, there is a single window with 12-pane glazing. The doors are double leaf and made of planks. Additional features include an eaves band, renewed ridge and end stacks, and a slate roof. There is also a modern harled retaining wall present.
Local climate
20-22 Novar Road, Alness sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 46 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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