Bridgend, 1 Novar Road, Alness is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983. House. 1 related planning application.
Bridgend, 1 Novar Road, Alness
- WRENN ID
- grey-jade-thunder
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bridgend, 1 Novar Road, Alness, IV17 0QG
- OS grid reference
- NH 654 696
- Coordinates
- 57.69611, -4.25951
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an early 19th century, two-storey, three-bay house located at 1 Novar Road in Alness. It features a central door and is constructed of coursed rubble with painted ashlar margins. The east gable is harled and includes windows on the ground floor, first floor, and a small attic. There is a later single-storey and attic addition on the west gable, which has a gabled dormer that rises through the wallhead. The house has four-pane glazing, corniced end stacks, and a slate roof.
Local climate
Bridgend, 1 Novar Road, Alness sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 46 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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