Mains Of Coul is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983. Farm.
Mains Of Coul
- WRENN ID
- drifting-casement-fern
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- Type
- Farm
- OS grid reference
- NH 462 562
- Coordinates
- 57.57001, -4.57271
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Mains of Coul is a two-storey farm building dated 1795, featuring a 12-bay square frontage constructed from rubble with tooled and polished ashlar dressings. The central bay has a keystoned segmental headed archway set within a pediment, which also includes a first-floor window, a blind oculus in the pediment, and an apex finial. To the east, there are five wide bays that house stables, along with a segmental headed carriage house in the outer bay. To the west, there are six closer spaced bays that contain two dwellings within five bays, with an outer bay also featuring a segmental headed carriage house similar to that on the east side. The first floor has regular fenestration with small windows that have 6-pane glazing. The ground floor on the west side includes two doorways and three 12-pane windows. The building has one timber porch, four symmetrical ridge stacks, and a piended slate roof.
Local climate
Mains Of Coul sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 48 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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