Byres And Boundary Walls, South Yarrows Croft House, Thrumster is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 March 2007. Croft house.
Byres And Boundary Walls, South Yarrows Croft House, Thrumster
- WRENN ID
- blind-passage-bone
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 March 2007
- Type
- Croft house
- OS grid reference
- ND 306 433
- Coordinates
- 58.37264, -3.18676
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
South Yarrows Croft House is an early 19th century vernacular single-storey croft house with a rectangular plan and three bays. It is situated on sloping ground and features adjoining byres that extend to the east, forming an irregular linear group. The exterior is characterized by small, deep-set, irregularly spaced windows, along with later openings on the north wall, and thick tarred chimneys. The walls are made of whitewashed rubble.
To the south and east, there are two separate barns with finely worked rough rubble walls that create an irregular U-shaped courtyard around the croft house. The windows are 4-pane sash and case style, with some later fixed timber casements, and the doors are boarded timber. The roofs are made of corrugated asbestos with stone ridges, and there are stone skews with a concrete overlay. The chimney stacks are made of tarred rubble masonry with clay cans, and the rainwater goods are plastic and aluminium.
The interior has not been seen since 2005.
Local climate
Byres And Boundary Walls, South Yarrows Croft House, Thrumster receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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