Balblair House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986.
Balblair House
- WRENN ID
- twisted-hall-dale
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- OS grid reference
- NH 535 457
- Coordinates
- 57.47787, -4.44423
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Balblair House is a three-storey and attic house dating from around 1800, with a later 19th-century three-storey wing to the rear. The house is set against a slope and has a regular three-bay south-facing frontage, with the entrance and flanking principal rooms located on the first floor. The exterior is constructed from harl-pointed rubble with red, tooled and polished ashlar dressings. A central, square porch fronts the building, and the window arrangement is symmetrical, with three small swept dormers in the roof. The west gable is bowed, featuring a bowed piended roof, a tripartite window on the ground floor, and three windows each on the first and second floors.
A three-storey, two-bay wing projects from the rear, with upper floor windows slightly set back under gablets. The original house has 12-pane glazing, while the later wing has 4-pane glazing. The main house has a piended roof with paired ridge stacks, and the later wing has an end stack and a slated gabled roof.
Inside the original house, a simple, curved staircase leads to the upper floors. The dining and drawing rooms feature delicate ceiling cornices. The dining room has a carved chimneypiece, believed to be of French origin. Flanking engaged columns are present on the drawing room chimneypiece.
Local climate
Balblair House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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