Free Church, Toll Road, Avoch is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 April 1981. Former church, village hall.
Free Church, Toll Road, Avoch
- WRENN ID
- hidden-tower-cedar
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1981
- Type
- Former church, village hall
- OS grid reference
- NH 698 550
- Coordinates
- 57.56662, -4.17747
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Free Church on Toll Road in Avoch was designed by Alexander Ross and built between 1872 and 1873. This Italianate church features a broad rectangular shape with a campanile at the northeast corner. It has five bay flanks and round-arched windows that include hoodmoulds. The east gable showcases a stepped three-light round-arched window, while the west gable is adorned with a rose window. The square three-stage campanile at the northeast corner has a battered, rusticated base that forms a porch. It includes four round-arched belfry openings supported by engaged columns and has a corbelled eaves course. The church has a shallow piended roof topped with a weather vane. The exterior is made of coursed rubble with polished ashlar dressings, all in red sandstone, and it has a slate roof.
Local climate
Free Church, Toll Road, Avoch sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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