Free Church, Balblair is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986. 1 related planning application.
Free Church, Balblair
- WRENN ID
- lunar-mantel-sage
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- OS grid reference
- NH 508 450
- Coordinates
- 57.47091, -4.48826
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an 1845 Free Church, now serving as a builder’s store and situated within a roughly coped drystone walled enclosure. The symmetrical rectangular building is constructed of red rubble stone with tooled rubble dressings, and a harled west gable. A central entrance is located on the east gable, flanked by round-headed windows providing access to a gallery. Matching small windows are situated in the west gable above a projecting minister’s porch which features a side entrance and an end stack. The north and south elevations consist of three bays each, with round-headed windows on the ground floor and small square-headed gallery windows above. The windows are multi-pane casements. A birdcage bellcote is positioned at the apex of the east gable, and the building is roofed with slate. Further details are recorded in W. Ewing’s Annals of the Free Church (1914), page 215.
Local climate
Free Church, Balblair sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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- 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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