Taylors Loft, Hynds Lane, Golspie is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984.

Taylors Loft, Hynds Lane, Golspie

WRENN ID
dim-keystone-sedge
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 831 999
Coordinates
57.97305, -3.97637
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Dated 1867, Taylors Loft is a Scottish Renaissance style building of two storeys and an attic. It has a three-bay frontage on the northwest side of the street, with a curved angle to the west and a large, crowstepped gable corbelled over the first floor. The building is constructed of coursed, stugged rubble with contrasting, tooled sandstone dressings.

The ground floor features a shop front with a round-headed doorway and two similarly detailed shop windows to the left; a flat-headed window is on the right. A bipartite window is located on the first floor; all other windows are simple sash and case designs. There are two dormers with gabled and bargeboarded fronts, each with sliding sashes to the front and rear, largely featuring 12-pane glazing. The roof is slate-covered and has corniced end stacks.

A circular stair turret extends to the rear of the building, topped with a conical roof. A later two-storey wing extends to the rear, with a frontage onto a side lane. The initials "MPJ" appear on the building. It is shown on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1873 as the Post Office. The statutory address is Golspie Main Street Co-op Drapery.

Local climate

Taylors Loft, Hynds Lane, 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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