8 Braehead, Cromarty is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 December 1980. House.
8 Braehead, Cromarty
- WRENN ID
- vacant-span-swift
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 December 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- 8 Braehead, Cromarty, IV11 8XR
- OS grid reference
- NH 788 675
- Coordinates
- 57.68163, -4.03355
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
8 Braehead in Cromarty is an early 19th century building that features harled exterior walls. It has two storeys with two windows and a central door on the ground floor, which is sheltered by a gabled timber porch. There is one window on the first floor. The building has been extended to the south with a two-storey addition that includes two closely set modern windows on the ground floor and one Gothic casement window with a gabled dormer head on the first floor. The roof is slated.
Local climate
8 Braehead, Cromarty 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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