Stables And Gighouse, Scotsburn House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971.
Stables And Gighouse, Scotsburn House
- WRENN ID
- plain-moulding-tallow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NH 720 762
- Coordinates
- 57.75795, -4.15274
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building comprises a house and associated gighouse and stables, dating from around 1800 to 1810. The two-storey house, built over a raised basement, has five bays and is constructed of coursed rubble with tooled ashlar dressings and margins. A corniced door sits at the centre, approached by a shallow flight of steps over the raised basement, which features a cast-iron handrail. The door surround has moulded jambs and a decorative fanlight. A bandcourse runs between the raised basement and the ground floor. The first floor windows are smaller, with bays two and four having blind openings. The windows have 9-pane and 12-pane glazing. A moulded eaves band, corniced end stacks, and a slate roof complete the exterior. The rear elevation is symmetrical, with a tall stair window centrally placed.
Inside, the house has simple corniced ceilings, including a frieze embossed with Mackenzie stags’ heads in the entrance hall. It also features a semi-circular stairwell and original panelled doors and doorcases. The house is said to have been built by Simon Mackenzie.
The gighouse and stables are a simple, low whitewashed rubble building. A swept dormer is visible above the current garage door, with pigeon flightholes incorporated, and a piended loft dormer is located in the west gable of the building, which has a piended slate roof.
Local climate
Stables And Gighouse, Scotsburn House 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 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 0.2°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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