Nigg Mains is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. Steading, granary.
Nigg Mains
- WRENN ID
- endless-bronze-candle
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- Type
- Steading, granary
- OS grid reference
- NH 803 715
- Coordinates
- 57.71748, -4.00954
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Nigg Mains is a steading from the earlier 19th century, designed in a hollow square layout. It is constructed of rubble with tooled rubble dressings. The center features a round-headed arched entrance with blocked imposts, a blind vent above, and set pigeon flightholes in the pedimented gable. The building has various piended dormers and loft entrances, topped with slate roofs of differing heights.
The granary, also from the early 19th century, is a long two-storey structure with seven bays, presenting long elevations to the east and west. It is built of rubble with tooled ashlar margins. The west elevation features a double forestair in the center, flanked to the south by a large slapped door. There is a piended loft entrance in the south gable, along with small loft vents at wallhead height, and it is covered by a piended slate roof.
Local climate
Nigg Mains 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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