Swyn-Y-Coed, 3 High Street, Dornoch is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984.

Swyn-Y-Coed, 3 High Street, Dornoch

WRENN ID
twelfth-cellar-harvest
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 March 1984
OS grid reference
NH 796 897
Coordinates
57.88067, -4.03061
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

1 and 2 High Street in Dornoch are a terrace of three houses built in the earlier 19th century. These two-storey and attic homes each have three bays and are constructed from dressed rubble with tooled dressings and harled flanks. Each house features a central door, two small piended dormers, a corniced ridge, and end stacks, all topped with slate roofs. Number 1 has an enlarged shop window and a side entrance, while Number 2 has two enlarged shop windows. Swn-y-Coed, one of the houses, has a double-leafed door with 12-pane glazing.

Local climate

Swyn-Y-Coed, 3 High Street, Dornoch receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 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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