Free Church Manse, Novar Road, Alness is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 February 1986. House.
Free Church Manse, Novar Road, Alness
- WRENN ID
- wild-truss-river
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1986
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NH 650 695
- Coordinates
- 57.695, -4.26642
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Free Church Manse on Novar Road in Alness was built in 1843. It is a south-facing, two-storey house with three bays and a rear wing. The front is made of coursed, tooled rubble, while the flanks are harl pointed rubble, featuring contrasting painted tooled ashlar margins. The entrance is a centrally located corniced door, and there are single windows on both the ground and first floors of the east gable, each with 12-pane glazing. The roof is piended and covered with slate, with paired coped stacks on both the front and back ridges. The rear wing has been raised to a full two storeys and is clad in slate, with modern windows.
Local climate
Free Church Manse, Novar Road, Alness sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 65 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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