Swiss Cottage, Balnagown Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983.
Swiss Cottage, Balnagown Castle
- WRENN ID
- kindled-hinge-sage
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- OS grid reference
- NH 756 757
- Coordinates
- 57.75448, -4.09196
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a late 19th-century cottage ornée, located within the grounds of Balnagown Castle. The building is constructed of coursed red rubble with tooled dressings. The symmetrical south elevation features two storeys and three bays. Ground floor windows are only present in the outer bays, while a long window extends across the center of the first floor. A canted bay window rises to the first floor in the west gable. A slightly projecting wing extends to the rear, with the entrance positioned in the re-entrant angle. All windows are mullioned and transomed, with lattice pane glazing. The roof is deeply overhanging and piended, with slate tiles, raised above the central first-floor window, and wide white painted eaves supported by carved brackets. A central ridge chimney is present, along with a chimney on the rear wing.
Local climate
Swiss Cottage, 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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