The Cottage, Main Street, Golspie is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984. 1 related planning application.

The Cottage, Main Street, Golspie

WRENN ID
turning-corbel-blackthorn
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 March 1984
Address
The Cottage, Main Street, Golspie, KW10 6RA
OS grid reference
NC 834 000
Coordinates
57.97477, -3.97284
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Cottage and Newton are a pair of cottages dating from the 1860s, built of tooled rubble with bullfaced stone dressings and crowstepped gables. The Cottage, dated 1868, is a three-bay structure with a central front door and two gabled dormers in the wallhead, featuring 12-pane glazing. The dormer gable of The Cottage is initialled "S" for Sutherland. Newton, situated at a right angle to The Cottage, has an advanced gabled front bay and an entrance on its return southwest elevation. It includes a gabled porch and a large gabled dormer which incorporates a 1866 datestone. This dormer features tripartite 2-pane glazing, and a barred cell window survives to the rear. The roof is slate, with corniced end and ridge stacks. A coped rubble front garden wall is present.

Local climate

The Cottage, Main Street, Golspie receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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