Borgie House, Castleton is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. House.
Borgie House, Castleton
- WRENN ID
- sacred-kitchen-hemlock
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- ND 192 671
- Coordinates
- 58.58513, -3.39038
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Borgie House in Castleton is a two-storey house built between 1860 and 1870. It features an asymmetrical three-bay entrance front made of local rubble, accented with contrasting tooled ashlar dressings. The house has an advanced centre gabled bay that includes a gabled entrance porch located in the south re-entrant angle. The symmetrical two-bay gabled south front has taller ground floor windows with 12-pane glazing. Notable architectural details include triangular skewputts with trefoil detailing, stone apex finials, coped ridge and end stacks, and slate roofs with stone ridges. Additionally, there is a service wing that extends from the north gable.
Local climate
Borgie House, Castleton receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% 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 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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