Balmuirfield House is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 December 1991. House.

Balmuirfield House

WRENN ID
stranded-jade-brook
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Angus
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
10 December 1991
Type
House
OS grid reference
NO 397 340
Coordinates
56.49502, -2.98056
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Balmuirfield House is a later 19th century, two-storey L-plan house with extensions from 1903 attributed to James Findlay. The building features snecked rubble and harl on the sides and rear, with stugged coursers at the front, and is harled at the first floor. It has an ashlar margin and a piended and gabled slate roof. The windows are a mix of single and paired styles, with painted canted windows at the front, sash and case frames with plate glass at the bottom, and a variety of glazing patterns at the top. The house also has flat-coped skews, wallhead and shaped gables, and moulded cast-iron gutters at the front and sides, along with ridge and end stacks.

The south elevation is symmetrical with five bays. The original three bays are on the right, featuring French doors (the original front door) at the center with an astragalled fanlight and droved margins, flanked by canted windows with multi-paned glazing at the top of the top sashes and moulded cornices. To the right, there is a flat-roofed canted window on the first floor with 4-and 8-pane glazing at the top sashes and a shaped gable above. A large multi-pane window is on the left, with a smaller shaped gable above. The later two bays on the left include a panelled and glazed door with a fanlight and droved margins, and a full-height canted window with a shaped gable, similar to the outer right, but with 4-and 8-pane glazing.

The east elevation is asymmetrical, featuring a gable at the center with two windows on the ground floor and one on the first floor. There is a bay on the left with a wallhead stack and a window at the far left with multi-pane glazing at the top of the top sash. The bay on the right has a door and two windows on the ground floor, with part of the first floor raised and harled to full height, and a window on the left.

The north elevation has a bay on the left that is raised and harled at the first floor, with a door and various windows, and an oriel at the top right. There is a later single-storey dry-dashed, flat-roofed addition on the right, and a cheese press incised with 'JO' at the far right.

The interior is in original condition throughout, including the chimneypieces, kitchen, bathroom, and pantry ceramics. The multi-pane top sash glazing in the dining and drawing rooms features stained glass depicting foliage, flowers, birds, fish, and portrait heads.

Local climate

Balmuirfield House receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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