Old Petty, Petty is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. 2 related planning applications.
Old Petty, Petty
- WRENN ID
- over-trefoil-meadow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- OS grid reference
- NH 739 499
- Coordinates
- 57.52166, -4.10636
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Walled Garden at Old Petty in Petty is a tall two-storey and attic house built between 1836 and 1839, with a raised basement. Due to the sloped site, the rear (north) elevation rises to three full storeys. The south frontage features coursed red rubble, while the flanks are finished with harled pointed rubble, accented by tooled ashlar dressings and margins.
The entrance is centrally located and corniced, complete with a rectangular fanlight. It is accessed by a flight of steps that oversails the raised basement, featuring a curved cast-iron balustrade. The steps connect to the frontage at a broad band-course. The house has symmetrical fenestration, including a pair of later 19th-century canted gabled dormers with shaped wooden finials in the outer bays.
The symmetrical rear fenestration is somewhat affected by later bathroom window insertions and a single-storey, irregular three-bay porch that masks the entrance. A gablet with an apex stack rises at the centre of the wallhead. Most windows retain their original 16-pane glazing, and there are coped end stacks and slate roofs. Additionally, there is a single-storey lean-to garage extension at the east gable, which extends to the height of the raised basement and is visible only as a length of rubble wall at the frontage.
The walled garden, also built between 1836 and 1839, features large coped rubble walls.
Local climate
Old Petty, Petty sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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 — 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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