Ferry House, Balblair is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. Inn. 1 related planning application.
Ferry House, Balblair
- WRENN ID
- old-passage-magpie
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Ferry House, Balblair, IV7 8LG
- OS grid reference
- NH 703 666
- Coordinates
- 57.6714, -4.17553
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ferry House in Balblair is a tall three-storey building constructed in 1820 by Hector Holm, with masonry work done by Alexander Mackenzie and John Gordon from Invergordon. The house has three bays and features a central door, with the exterior harled and accented by painted ashlar margins. The second-floor windows are raised and topped with piended dormer heads, while a later window has been added to the right of the door. There are single-storey wings at the south gable and at the rear, along with various later extensions. The roofs are slated.
Local climate
Ferry House, Balblair 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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