Westerlea, Beach Road, Kingston is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. Former rocket station.

Westerlea, Beach Road, Kingston

WRENN ID
winter-flagstone-flax
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 August 1981
Type
Former rocket station
OS grid reference
NJ 336 655
Coordinates
57.67517, -3.11331
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Westerlea is a small single-storey gabled building dating from 1878. It is constructed of whitewashed rubble and features double doors on the north gable, which faces the sea, along with a smaller doorway in the centre of the east elevation. The roof is made of corrugated iron. Inside, there is a half loft and a stone flagged floor.

Local climate

Westerlea, Beach Road, Kingston 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 greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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