Ben Bhraggie Hotel, Old Bank Road, Golspie is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 December 1979. 1 related planning application.
Ben Bhraggie Hotel, Old Bank Road, Golspie
- WRENN ID
- slow-ledge-briar
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1979
- Address
- Ben Bhraggie Hotel, Old Bank Road, Golspie, KW10 6RS
- OS grid reference
- NC 838 002
- Coordinates
- 57.97644, -3.96585
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Ben Bhraggie Hotel, formerly Aberdeen Town and County Bank, dates from 1829 and 1886, comprising three linked ranges—two of two storeys and one of single storey and attic—creating an irregular building. The construction is mainly of coursed rubble, with tooled dressings and contrasting painted margins and reveals. The central portion, dated 1829, has three bays with a central door and three large gabled dormers featuring exaggerated scroll skewputts. Adjoining the north gable is a two-storey, three-bay block with enlarged ground floor windows and substantial stone brackets supporting a projecting roof at the gable ends. Inset within these brackets are Sutherland and Stafford coats of arms, also dated 1829. A further single-storey and attic range, dated 1886, is set back to the south. The windows are lying pane with margined and four-pane glazing. Octagonal corniced end stacks are present, along with slate roofs. A modern glazed single-storey entrance porch/sun lounge has been added in the south re-entrant angle. Dormer pediments are initialled MS and ES. Sutherland and Stafford Arms are inset at the front.
Local climate
Ben Bhraggie Hotel, Old Bank Road, Golspie receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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