Mains Of Balnagown, Balnagown Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. 1 related planning application.
Mains Of Balnagown, Balnagown Castle
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-arch-cream
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NH 760 749
- Coordinates
- 57.74735, -4.08478
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a late 18th century, two-story and attic house with a three-bay design, situated at Mains of Balnagown, near Balnagown Castle. The house has lean-to extensions projecting from each gable. The walls are harled (roughcast) and feature ashlar (finely dressed stone) dressings and margins. The front door is centrally positioned, and the first-floor windows are slightly larger than those on the ground floor. Two bargeboarded dormers were added in the later 19th century. The windows contain 12 panes of glass each. A stairwell window is located at the rear of the building. Chamfered ashlar quoins (corner stones) are visible on the lean-to extensions. The gables have corniced (projecting decorative detail) end stacks, one of which has been renewed. The roof is covered with slate. The statutory address is Balnagown Farmhouse (at Balnagown Mains).
Local climate
Mains Of Balnagown, Balnagown Castle 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 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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