The Mains, Urquhart Village is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 January 1989. Cottage.
The Mains, Urquhart Village
- WRENN ID
- young-clay-yarrow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1989
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NJ 287 627
- Coordinates
- 57.64859, -3.19601
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Mains is an early 19th century long single-storey cottage with six bays, arranged as two sets of three bays. It incorporates a former steading that is continuous with the west gable. The building features harled clay and boulder walling, along with a boulder case course. The street-facing elevation has two doorways, one of which is glazed as a window, flanked by windows that have modern two-pane glazing. The ridge stacks have been renewed, and the cottage has a piended roof on the east gable, which is gabled at the west, replacing the former thatch. At the rear, there are two small projecting gabled wings.
Local climate
The Mains, Urquhart Village 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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