No.5, Ferness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 June 1979.
No.5, Ferness
- WRENN ID
- moated-gallery-hemlock
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1979
- OS grid reference
- NH 962 448
- Coordinates
- 57.48203, -3.73201
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
No. 3, The Smiddy in Ferness is part of a row of six cottages built in the mid 19th century. These single-storey and attic cottages face east and feature three bays. They are constructed from rubble with tooled rubble dressings. Each cottage has a central door and piended dormers in the outer bays, with mainly four-pane glazing. The cottages have coped end stacks and slate roofs.
No. 1 has a former additional door in the right bay that has been converted into a window. No. 3, known as Smiddy Cottage, was originally a smiddy located at the rear, which has been converted into extra living space by J. & W. Wittet in 1953.
Local climate
No.5, Ferness sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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