Harbour, Avoch is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. Harbour. 2 related planning applications.
Harbour, Avoch
- WRENN ID
- woven-slate-scarlet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- Type
- Harbour
- OS grid reference
- NH 704 550
- Coordinates
- 57.56708, -4.1678
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Harbour in Avoch was designed by Thomas Telford and built between 1813 and 1815. It features a basin that is enclosed by an L-shaped pier and a straight pier made of large stone blocks laid vertically, with wooden-piled faces on the jamb of the L. An extension was added in 1904 by James Fraser, a civil engineer from Inverness, which includes a concrete C-shaped pier that partly covers the original structure.
Local climate
Harbour, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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