Blackness House is a Grade B listed building in the Falkirk local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 April 1979. House. 1 related planning application.

Blackness House

WRENN ID
solitary-footing-solstice
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Falkirk
Constituency
Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 April 1979
Type
House
Address
Blackness House, EH49 7NE
OS grid reference
NT 049 799
Coordinates
56.00331, -3.52625
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Blackness House is an earlier 19th century Georgian building that stands two storeys tall with a three-bay front. The structure is built of coursed stone and features a piended (pitched) slated roof that is set behind a blocking course. The central bay projects forward and is flanked by one-storey bay windows.

Local climate

Blackness House receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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