Pitcalzean House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. House.
Pitcalzean House
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-gallery-summer
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NH 802 702
- Coordinates
- 57.70588, -4.01197
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Pitcalzean House is a rambling two-storey and attic house with an early 19th century core and several additions made throughout the 19th century. The exterior is harled with painted margins. Originally, the house faced south and featured a raised basement, with three bays including a central door flanked by tripartite windows on both the ground and first floors, as well as two piended dormers and margined end stacks.
Around 1830 to 1840, a central projecting wing was added, which is two storeys high with two bays, featuring tripartite windows on both floors, a bowed gable, and a piended roof that houses the dining and drawing rooms. In the later 19th century, the house was re-orientated to face west, resulting in the current three-bay gabled facade. This facade includes a recessed central bay with an entrance, round-headed flanking lights, a fanlight, and a panelled door.
A balcony supported by cast-iron columns features a decorative cast-iron balustrade that links the outer bays to form a porch. The outer canted bay windows rise to the first floor and are topped with scalloped parapets and finialled skews, while a shaped gable sits above the narrow centre bay. There are additional service wings at the rear, and the house displays various glazing patterns along with corniced end and wallhead stacks, all under a slate roof.
Inside, the first-floor drawing room features a coved plaster ceiling dating from around 1830 to 1840.
Local climate
Pitcalzean House receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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