Gardener's Cottage, Belladrum House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986.
Gardener's Cottage, Belladrum House
- WRENN ID
- eastward-copper-sepia
- Grade
- B
- 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 520 415
- Coordinates
- 57.44006, -4.46599
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The site comprises a late 18th and early 19th century walled garden and a gardener’s cottage, situated near Belladrum. The walled garden is large and irregularly shaped, enclosed by high, coped rubble walls. An arched entrance is located in the north wall, featuring a rounded-headed archway beneath a pedimented overthrow decorated with three ball finials, and paired decorative cast iron gates. A lean-to glasshouse was added in the later 19th century along the south-facing wall, alongside a gardener's lean-to bothy at the north end. The early 19th century gardener’s cottage is a single-storey, symmetrical three-bay dwelling facing east, with a rear wing. The cottage is constructed of coursed rubble with tooled rubble dressings. It has varied glazing, some later fenestration, a central ridge stack with coped detailing, and a piended slate roof with projecting eaves. The gardener's cottage is now used as a holiday home.
Local climate
Gardener's Cottage, Belladrum House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 44 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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