Lybster Quatre Bras ' 4 2-bay dwellings is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. 5 related planning applications.

Lybster Quatre Bras ' 4 2-bay dwellings

WRENN ID
stranded-threshold-candle
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 November 1984
Address
Lybster Quatre Bras ' 4 2-bay dwellings, KW3 6BN
OS grid reference
ND 247 362
Coordinates
58.30802, -3.28549
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

These are a group of mid-19th century dwellings located on a corner plot at the junction of Wick Road (A9) and Main Street in Lybster. The principal block is a tall, two-storey and attic terrace comprising four two-bay houses. They are built of coursed rubble with tooled dressings, and feature four canted bay windows facing west towards Main Street. A further, slightly later range of two two-storey and attic, four-bay dwellings adjoins the main terrace to the south, with one incorporating paired shop windows on the ground floor. Each house has three gabled dormers with finials breaking the roofline. Surviving windows include some 12-pane sashes, and there are long, narrow stair windows to the rear. Chimneys rise from the ridge and end walls, and the roofs are slate covered.

A mid-19th century row of single-storey service cottages stands nearby, with their north gable facing the A9. This row features seven bays, two doors, and a large garage door within the southern bay. These cottages are also built of rubble with end and ridge stacks, and have Caithness slate roofs.

A slightly later two-storey, four-bay range sits on the corner plot. This building was not shown on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1871.

Local climate

Lybster Quatre Bras ' 4 2-bay dwellings receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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