Dunballoch is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
Dunballoch
- WRENN ID
- eternal-steel-ivory
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- OS grid reference
- NH 523 448
- Coordinates
- 57.47005, -4.46422
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dunballoch is a house dating from circa 1820. It is a single-story structure with an attic, and originally comprised three bays. The construction is of coursed rubble with polished ashlar margins and dressings. The central entrance is located within a recessed bay, fronted by a portico with paired ashlar columns arranged in a distyle in antis. The entrance doorway features six panels with reeded detailing, surmounted by a square-headed fanlight with intersecting glazing. Flanking the entrance are tripartite windows. Later additions include canted dormer windows in the outer bays, featuring multi-pane glazing. A broad eaves band runs along the roofline, complemented by panelled end stacks and a slate roof. A five-bay wing extends to the rear of the house, with an end stack.
Local climate
Dunballoch sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% 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 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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