Brackla House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. Villa. 1 related planning application.
Brackla House
- WRENN ID
- long-rampart-rowan
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1971
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Brackla House, IV12 5QY
- OS grid reference
- NH 860 513
- Coordinates
- 57.53746, -3.90549
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Brackla House is a villa built around 1815, with additional wings added in the mid-19th century, creating a cruciform layout. The house is two stories high with a raised basement and features a symmetrical three-bay front. It is constructed of rubble with tooled ashlar dressings.
The main south front has a central door flanked by sidelights and a fanlight, accessed by a semi-circular flight of shallow steps that extend over the raised basement. A corniced portico, supported by two pairs of slender Roman-Doric columns, is located at the entrance, with tall windows on either side. Each of the three-bay side elevations has short projecting wings, with the west wing featuring a large corbelled oriel window on the ground floor and a jerkin-headed gable. The windows mainly have 12-pane glazing. The house has four symmetrical ridge stacks, linked by a continuous cornice, all topped with cast-iron cans, and has shallow piended slate roofs with a rear valley. The east elevation of the raised basement includes garage doors.
Inside, the drawing room and dining room are decorated with plaster cornices, featuring a Greek key pattern in the drawing room and an egg and dart design in the dining room.
The property is surrounded by a garden enclosed by coped rubble walls lined with brick.
Local climate
Brackla House receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% 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 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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