Platcock House, Church Street, Fortrose is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. House.
Platcock House, Church Street, Fortrose
- WRENN ID
- pitched-tracery-coral
- 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
- House
- OS grid reference
- NH 726 568
- Coordinates
- 57.58356, -4.13232
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Platcock House is an early 19th century, two-storey and attic, four-bay house located on Church Street in Fortrose. The exterior is harled with painted margins, and the first-floor windows are larger than those on the ground floor. There is a modern glazed porch and three early 20th century flat-roofed dormers. A service wing is situated at the rear of the building, and it features a slate roof and a coved ceiling.
Local climate
Platcock House, Church Street, Fortrose 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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