Upper Pump Room, Strathpeffer is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983.

Upper Pump Room, Strathpeffer

WRENN ID
guardian-jade-myrtle
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
31 August 1983
OS grid reference
NH 483 580
Coordinates
57.58706, -4.53834
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Upper Pump Room at Strathpeffer is a rambling, single-storey building dating to circa 1860, with enlargements circa 1890 and completed around 1909. It is constructed from coursed rubble with tooled dressings. The building features a square entrance bay with a pyramidal roof, featuring barge-boarded dormers on three sides and a small, round wooden cupola. Flanking halls are characterised by tripartite windows, and a further entrance has a glazed door with flanking lights. Oval "bulls' eye" windows are set within the gables. The building is roofed with shallow slate and incorporates an arcaded verandah at the north-east angle.

Inside, the halls are lined with tiles. The present central car park occupies the site of a former, earlier principal pump room, which was originally known as the Upper Pump Room.

References to the building appear in Fortescue Fox's 1925 edition of Strathpeffer, D. Nanson’s 1869 publication “On the Sulphur Waters of Strathpeffer”, and Ordnance Survey maps from 1876 and 1906.

Local climate

Upper Pump Room, Strathpeffer sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 46 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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