Free Church Of Scotland Manse, Ord Place, Lairg is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984. 2 related planning applications.
Free Church Of Scotland Manse, Ord Place, Lairg
- WRENN ID
- plain-threshold-furze
- 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
- Free Church Of Scotland Manse, Ord Place, Lairg, IV27 4AZ
- OS grid reference
- NC 579 058
- Coordinates
- 58.01866, -4.40571
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an asymmetrical, two-storey house dating to circa 1845. Constructed of rubble with tooled dressings, it is located on Ord Place in Lairg. The south elevation features a door near the centre, flanked to the east by a slightly projecting, gabled bay. This projecting bay has a wooden mullion dividing the ground and first-floor windows. A first-floor window in the outer (western) bay breaks the wallhead with a small gablet. The windows have multi-pane and 12-pane glazing. The house has coped end stacks and slate roofs. Further detail is provided in Ewing's Annals of the Free Church, volume two, page 221.
Local climate
Free Church Of Scotland Manse, Ord Place, Lairg sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 75 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 56 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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