1-2 Farm Cottages, Belladrum is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986.

1-2 Farm Cottages, Belladrum

WRENN ID
keen-terrace-pearl
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 520 414
Coordinates
57.43886, -4.46596
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

These are early 20th century farm cottages, likely designed by W.L. Carruthers of Inverness. The cottages form an asymmetrical terrace of six dwellings, rendered in white harling. They feature polished ashlar doorpieces, appearing as sandstone ashlar, with cills and window jambs. The entrances to numbers 1 and 2 are on the east elevation, while numbers 3, 4, 5, and 6 are on the north elevation. Numbers 1 and 6 have projecting two-storey porches at the east and west gables, respectively, with round-headed entrances featuring shallow concave chamfered details set into corniced ashlar doorpieces, each decorated with three small lozenges. Plank doors are fitted with blacksmith hinges; number 5 is flanked by single "porthole" windows. The windows are multi-pane casements, with 2, 3, and 4 panes on both ground and first floors. Wide gabled end bays project slightly on both the north and south sides. Four gabled dormers break the wallhead on the north elevation, while two weather-boarded dormers are located on the south, with a loft door over the porch of number 1. Tall, white harled corniced stacks rise from the roof, which is covered in slate. It is believed they were built in 1914. Number 1, with a loft door over the porch, was formerly used as a gardener's bothy. Carruthers is known to have worked on the former Belladrum mansion, which is now demolished.

Local climate

1-2 Farm Cottages, Belladrum 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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