Kindeace House is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. 1 related planning application.
Kindeace House
- WRENN ID
- solitary-steeple-sorrel
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- Address
- Kindeace House, IV18 0LL
- OS grid reference
- NH 725 733
- Coordinates
- 57.73143, -4.14193
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kindeace House is a two-story and attic house with a raised basement, built around the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and significantly altered in 1869 and again in 1931. The house has five bays and is harled, with tooled ashlar margins and dressings. The central bay is slightly advanced and contains a front door set within a moulded architrave, approached by a wide flight of steps that overhang the raised basement, which features a wrought-iron balustrade. A stepped and moulded string course sits above the door. The first floor has paired windows, and above, in the gable, is a pointed-headed attic window. Flanking the gable are dummy bartizans, with gabletted crowsteps and a finial. There are two dormers with ball finials, dating to 1869. Single windows are located in the east and west ground floor gables, with a coat of arms within a recessed panel and a blind cruciform vent above. The windows contain two-pane glazing, and the roof has gabletted gables and crowsteps. A later, shallow projecting wing extends to the rear.
The stables, also designed by Alexander Ross and dated 1869, are a single-story and attic, U-plan block connected to the rear of the main house by harled and coped retaining walls that form a rectangular court. The courtyard is roofed by a canopy. The left section houses a carriage house, featuring a pointed-headed window above, while the right section contains a cottage with a similar first-floor window. A bellcote with a weather vane sits in the centre ridge, and there are end stacks; the roof is slate.
Gable coats of arms display the initials GR HE.
Local climate
Kindeace House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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- 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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