Balcraggie is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
Balcraggie
- WRENN ID
- patient-chamber-winter
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- OS grid reference
- NG 829 197
- Coordinates
- 57.21694, -5.59634
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Balcraggie, built in 1831-32, is a two-story, three-bay house. The front is harled with painted margins. The central bay slightly projects and features a pediment. The front door has a moulded doorpiece with a fanlight above, and a window sits above the door, with a bull’s eye window in the pediment. The rear (west) elevation is symmetrically arranged with three bays, and has later double-width windows in the ground floor outer bays. The windows are mostly 12-, 15-, and 18-pane sashes, and the roof is slate with corniced ridge stacks. Later single-story, single-bay additions project from each gable, returning to form a U-shaped plan. A garage door is incorporated into the gable of the north-facing addition, and a section to the south is ruinous.
Described in 1836 as "of considerable extent, and handsome structure," the building was originally the Glenelg Manse. Advertisements for tenders appeared in the Inverness Courier in August 1849.
Local climate
Balcraggie sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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