Scotsburn House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971.
Scotsburn House
- WRENN ID
- long-flint-laurel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NH 720 762
- Coordinates
- 57.75762, -4.15197
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Scotsburn House is a house dating from the early 19th century (1800-1810). It is a two-storey building with a raised basement, arranged over five bays. The exterior is constructed of coursed rubble with tooled ashlar dressings and margins. A corniced doorway is centrally positioned, approached by a shallow flight of steps leading up from the raised basement, which features a cast-iron handrail. The doorway has moulded jambs and a decorative fanlight, with a bandcourse marking the transition between the raised basement and the ground floor. The windows on the first floor are smaller, and two bays (numbers 2 and 4) have blind windows. The windows have 9-pane and 12-pane glazing. A moulded eaves band runs around the building, and corniced end stacks rise above the roofline. The roof is slate-covered. The rear elevation is symmetrical, featuring a long stair window in the centre.
The interior retains simple corniced ceilings, particularly in the entrance hall, which features a frieze embossed with Mackenzie stags’ heads. A semi-circular stairwell is present, along with original panelled doors and doorcases.
A separate gighouse and stables building is located nearby. This is a low, whitewashed rubble structure with a swept dormer above the present garage door, featuring pigeon flightholes. A piended loft dormer is incorporated into the west gable of the piended slate roof.
The house is said to have been built by Simon Mackenzie.
Local climate
Scotsburn 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 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 0.2°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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