The Old Store, Ferryton Point is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 May 1989. Girnal.
The Old Store, Ferryton Point
- WRENN ID
- open-entrance-hyssop
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1989
- Type
- Girnal
- OS grid reference
- NH 680 669
- Coordinates
- 57.67309, -4.21484
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Store at Ferryton Point is a late 18th-century roofless girnal or grain store. It is a long, two-storey structure built from rubble with roughly squared dressings. The southwest elevation features a central entrance, an additional door on the left, and an enlarged entrance on the right. There are two windows in the outer bays and small ventilating slits in the inner sections. The first floor has seven near-square openings. A forestair is located on the southwest gable, which also contains a flue and has an apex stack.
Local climate
The Old Store, Ferryton Point sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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