Station, Strathpeffer is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983. 2 related planning applications.
Station, Strathpeffer
- WRENN ID
- empty-quoin-vermeil
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- OS grid reference
- NH 485 583
- Coordinates
- 57.59003, -4.5346
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The station building at Strathpeffer dates from 1885 and was designed by Murdoch Paterson. It is a long, single-story building comprising 12 bays, with a single gabled canted bay projecting off-centre on the north elevation. The exterior features painted weather boarding above tooled rubble footings.
A continuous glazed gabled canopy with a fretted wooden cornice runs the full length of the south elevation, which originally faced the platform. This canopy is supported by 12 cast-iron columns, each with decorative cast-iron brackets. Each elevation incorporates 2-light windows with multi-pane glazing. The building has corniced ridge and end stacks, and a slate roof.
The station served a branch line connecting to Dingwall, which is now closed. In the late 1970s, the railway lines were lifted and the surrounding area was landscaped into a garden. The building was subsequently converted into a Tourist Information Office and Craft Centre. Further information about the station can be found in the Inverness Courier of January 8, 1885, and in John Hume’s The Industrial Archaeology of Scotland, volume ii (1977), page 287.
Local climate
Station, Strathpeffer sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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