Balmedie House is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 September 1984. House, eventide home.

Balmedie House

WRENN ID
guardian-gargoyle-moth
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 September 1984
Type
House, eventide home
OS grid reference
NJ 968 182
Coordinates
57.25526, -2.05391
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Balmedie House was built in 1878 for Wm. Harry Lumsden and incorporates the walls of a single-storey Regency house. This Jacobean baronial style building is two storeys high with a basement and features an asymmetrical four-storey tower and a porch with pulvinated rustication. It is constructed from local rubble with sandstone dressings and crowstepped gables. While the exterior may appear undistinguished, the interior includes some interesting features, particularly in the dining room.

Local climate

Balmedie House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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