Househill is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 August 1986.

Househill

WRENN ID
unlit-stair-soot
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 August 1986
OS grid reference
NH 888 553
Coordinates
57.57455, -3.85973
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Old Stables at Househill is a large T-plan house originally built in the mid to late 18th century and later recast in the mid to late 19th century. The building features harled walls with tooled ashlar dressings and stands two storeys tall with an attic over a raised basement. The original three-bay house is obscured by a large later projecting three-bay wing of similar height.

A later square projecting porch with a shaped parapet is approached by a flight of steps that includes a stone balustrade and a terminal pier topped with a ball finial. The south gable has a canted bay, with a tripartite window above, and features a shaped gable along with side gablet stacks. There is also a canted oriel in the east gable. At the rear, a central projecting semi-circular stairwell is complemented by a mid to late 19th-century corbelled caphouse addition that mirrors the gable detailing found at the front. Some original 12-pane glazing remains, and there are extensive single-storey additions at the rear, gableted dormers, broad end stacks, and a slate roof.

The stables consist of a single storey and attic, forming a three-bay stable and carriage house range, with a later single bay wing to the west that creates an L-plan court. This section is constructed of harl pointed rubble with ashlar dressings. It features a central front gablet topped with a finial and weathervane above a long hay loft door. To the left are two depressed arched carriage houses, while the stables are located to the right. Two piended dormers rise through the eaves, and there are end and ridge corniced stacks, all under slate roofs.

Local climate

Househill receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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