Windyhill, 85 High Street, Ardersier is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986. Cottage.

Windyhill, 85 High Street, Ardersier

WRENN ID
half-barrel-woodpecker
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 April 1986
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NH 782 549
Coordinates
57.56827, -4.03734
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Windyhill is a cottage located at 85 High Street in Ardersier, built around 1875. It is a single-storey and attic structure with a three-bay and roughly square plan, constructed from clay and boulder walling, all rendered with contrasting painted margins. The central door on the north elevation is sheltered by a later 19th century gabled porch featuring decorative bargeboards, and it is flanked by enlarged windows.

The cottage has 4-pane timber sash and case glazing throughout. It features a single central coped ridge stack on a steeply pitched thatched roof, which includes a pair of small attic lights on the north side.

At the rear, there is a single-storey lean-to extension that spans the full length of the house, complete with a dormer window that breaks the eaves. The interior was not seen as of 2014.

Local climate

Windyhill, 85 High Street, Ardersier receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% 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 0.3°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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