Tornaver, Off High Street, Dornoch is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Tornaver, Off High Street, Dornoch
- WRENN ID
- nether-kitchen-torch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Tornaver, Off High Street, Dornoch, IV25 3SH
- OS grid reference
- NH 798 896
- Coordinates
- 57.88038, -4.02844
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Tornaver is an early 19th century, two-storey and attic, three-bay house located off High Street in Dornoch. The building is constructed of rubble with tooled dressings, and the rear and flanks are harl pointed. The front (west) elevation features a modern glazed door at the centre of the first floor, which is accessed by a flight of steps with an ornate cast-iron handrail. There are two windows on the ground floor to the right, and the house has two piended dormers with 12-pane glazing. At the ground floor rear, there is a central door, which is masked by a modern porch due to the steeply sloping site. The house has end stacks and a slate roof.
Local climate
Tornaver, Off High Street, Dornoch 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 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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