Mains Of Balnagown, Balnagown Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983.
Mains Of Balnagown, Balnagown Castle
- WRENN ID
- shifting-footing-burdock
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- OS grid reference
- NH 760 749
- Coordinates
- 57.74735, -4.08478
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
These are late 18th-century stables, restored in 1862 by Andrew Maitland following a fire. The stables are two storeys high and feature eleven bays, built of harled stone with contrasting painted ashlar margins. The outer bays are slightly projected and contain carriage houses with wide, round-headed entrances, located in bays 3 and 9. A further round-headed entrance, with a pedimented section, is in the centre bay, featuring a loft door and an oculus above. Small loft windows are visible at first floor level. The building has paired ridge stacks and a slender ridge cupola, topped by a piended slate roof. Forestairs lead to the loft at each gable. An advertisement for tenders appeared in the Inverness Advertiser on January 17, 1862.
Local climate
Mains Of Balnagown, Balnagown Castle receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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