5 Margaret Street, Avoch is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. 2 related planning applications.

5 Margaret Street, Avoch

WRENN ID
tall-chamber-twilight
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 March 1971
Address
5 Margaret Street, Avoch, IV9 8PX
OS grid reference
NH 702 550
Coordinates
57.56677, -4.1708
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

4 Margaret Street in Avoch is a pair of cottages from the mid-19th century. Each cottage is single storey with an attic, featuring three bays and a central door. They have two canted dormers and a slate roof. The cottage at No. 4 is built of coursed rubble with stugged ashlar dressings, while No. 5 is rendered and lined to resemble ashlar, with painted reveals.

Local climate

5 Margaret Street, 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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