Drummuie House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1971. 2 related planning applications.
Drummuie House
- WRENN ID
- old-rotunda-soot
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1971
- Address
- Drummuie House, KW10 6TA
- OS grid reference
- NH 818 996
- Coordinates
- 57.97008, -3.99901
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Drummuie House is a circa 1809 two-storey range, comprising a central three-bay house with a central door, and slightly set-back two-storey, two-bay flanking wings. The central house is constructed of harl-pointed rubble with ashlar dressings. The doorway is masked by a later rustic wooden porch. Thick wooden mullions frame the upper first-floor windows of the central block, which contain 16 panes of glass; elsewhere windows have 12 panes. Rusticated quoins are present, along with an eaves band to the centre block, corniced end stacks, and a slate roof.
The interior is plain, featuring simple decorative plaster friezes in the ground floor rooms of the central portion, dating to the early 19th century.
Built by Captain Robert Sutherland (circa 1820), Drummuie House was described as "a handsome and commodious house.” It was for many years the residence of the Headmaster of the Golspie Technical School, built nearby in 1903. As of the time of listing, the house was empty. James Loch's An Account of the Improvements on the Estate of Lord Stafford (1820), appendix p19, provides further details.
Local climate
Drummuie House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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