Westlea, High Street, Beauly is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986. 2 related planning applications.
Westlea, High Street, Beauly
- WRENN ID
- noble-bronze-yew
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- Address
- Westlea, High Street, Beauly, IV4 7BT
- OS grid reference
- NH 525 462
- Coordinates
- 57.48288, -4.46033
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Westlea is a large, two-storey and attic building with a shop and dwelling, dating to the later 19th century. The main part of the building is three bays wide, constructed of coursed, tooled red rubble with tooled ashlar dressings, and painted at ground floor level. An adjoining two-storey, single-bay addition was built around 1900 on the north gable.
The façade is symmetrical, with shop entrances in the outer bays, flanked by large shop windows. All openings are square-headed with rounded angles. The first floor has paired, segmental-headed windows with keystones in the outer bays, and a single, similar window in the centre. Dormers are present in the outer bays, featuring shallow painted timber gables and two-pane glazing. Channelled ashlar pilaster strips run along the corners of the main block, and there are corniced end stacks. The roof is slate covered.
A lower wing to the north has a wide, shallow segmental-headed shop window on the ground floor, and a bipartite window on the first floor. This window has multi-pane glazing in the upper sashes, flanked by pilaster strips that clasp the gable and terminate with corniced caps. The gable of this wing is shaped, coped, and topped with an apex finial. The roof is slate.
Westlea appears as the Post Office on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1872. The statutory address is Beauly, Campbell and Co, High Street.
Local climate
Westlea, High Street, Beauly sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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