1 Drill Hall Cottages, Old Bank Road, Golspie is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984.

1 Drill Hall Cottages, Old Bank Road, Golspie

WRENN ID
small-chalk-birch
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 March 1984
OS grid reference
NC 839 004
Coordinates
57.97792, -3.9639
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Dated 1896, 1 and 2 Drill Hall Cottages are a picturesque, asymmetrical pair of estate cottages, reflecting the influence of the Sutherland and Stafford Estates.

The cottages are constructed of red rubble stone with contrasting, tooled grey ashlar dressings. A decorative timber-framed gable is present on the first floor. The west elevation has four bays, with the entrance to No. 1 located in a shallow re-entrant angle formed by the north-west gabled bay, and the entrance to No. 2 in the south-west angle, with a projecting, deep gabled bay facing south. Windows are arranged as tripartite sashes on the ground floor and in the south first-floor gable; elsewhere they are bipartite, including a barge-boarded, gabletted dormer on the west face. Decorative wooden finials adorn the bargeboards of all gables. The windows are 8-pane sashes. There are corniced stacks at the sides, ends, and ridge of the roof, which is covered in red tiles.

Local climate

1 Drill Hall Cottages, Old Bank Road, 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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