Melbourne Cottage, Latheronwheel is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 August 1979. 1 related planning application.

Melbourne Cottage, Latheronwheel

WRENN ID
waning-jamb-jackdaw
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 August 1979
Address
Melbourne Cottage, Latheronwheel, KW5 6DW
OS grid reference
ND 188 328
Coordinates
58.27636, -3.38467
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is an earlier 19th-century, two-story, three-bay house located in Latheronwheel, near Janets Town. The exterior is rendered and designed to resemble ashlar. The south-facing elevation features two prominent bowed bays on either side of a narrow entrance, which now has a modern glazed door. A second entrance is present in the east gable, with a window above it. The rear elevation, facing north onto the street, is symmetrical with three bays, containing ground-floor and first-floor windows in the outer bays (with one first-floor window being blind) and a stair window in the centre. The front windows have 12 panes, while other windows have 4 panes each. The roof is covered in slate and features a piended profile. No chimney stacks remain.

Local climate

Melbourne Cottage, Latheronwheel receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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