Belle Port is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983. House.

Belle Port

WRENN ID
graven-lancet-moth
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
31 August 1983
Type
House
OS grid reference
NH 672 689
Coordinates
57.69085, -4.2279
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Belle Port is a house built around 1850, featuring two stories and three bays, facing south. The structure is made of coursed red rubble with tooled ashlar dressings, and the flanks and rear are harled. The central door is flanked by canted bay windows with four-pane glazing. There is an eaves band inscribed with the name "Belleport" on the right side, and the house has coped end stacks and a slate roof. At the rear, there is a single-storey, three-bay harled wing with a central door on the east-facing elevation.

Local climate

Belle Port 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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