Avoch Parish Manse, Braehead, Avoch is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. Manse, stable. 1 related planning application.
Avoch Parish Manse, Braehead, Avoch
- WRENN ID
- peeling-railing-wren
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- Type
- Manse, stable
- Address
- Avoch Parish Manse, Braehead, Avoch, IV9 8QL
- OS grid reference
- NH 701 551
- Coordinates
- 57.56808, -4.17222
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Avoch Parish Manse, built between 1820 and 1822 by Thomas Murison, features later additions by George Rhind from 1845. The building consists of a basement, two storeys, and an attic, arranged in three bays. The central doorway is corniced and accessed by a shallow flight of steps that overhangs the basement. The ground floor has tripartite windows and is constructed from red cherry-pointed ashlar. There is an eaves band and a blocked eaves course, along with decorated scroll skewputts. The roof has three segmental-headed dormers, likely added in 1845, and is covered with slate.
The gables are finished in red harling, and there is a service wing at the rear. The stables, also designed by George Rhind in 1845, consist of a single-storey stable and steading block, which has been partially demolished and significantly altered for use as a garage. The pigeon loft retains blocked flight holes and alighting platforms. The property is marked by ashlar gate piers topped with pyramidal copes.
Local climate
Avoch Parish Manse, Braehead, Avoch sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 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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