Brightmony House is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971.

Brightmony House

WRENN ID
little-gutter-mist
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 January 1971
OS grid reference
NH 929 537
Coordinates
57.56114, -3.79091
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Brightmony House, dated 1732, is a two-storey, six-bay house with a later two-storey, two-bay addition at the east gable, built in a similar style. There is also a 19th-century single-storey wing at the rear. The south-facing facade features six regular bays with tall, narrow windows that have chamfered margins, and an off-centre entrance adorned with a later corniced and pilastered doorpiece. The east gable has two additional slightly wider bays with similar window styles. The house includes diminutive gable attic windows, crowsteps, cavetto skewputts, and ridge and end corniced stacks, all topped by a slate roof.

There is a single-storey, three-bay freestanding building positioned at right angles to the main house, connected to it at the southwest by a garden wall, which creates a U-plan courtyard. Some evidence of a former matching building remains at the southeast.

Inside, there is little of interest, but the east gable wall is clearly identifiable in the attic, featuring a small attic gable end window and pegged and numbered collars and rafters.

The property is enclosed by harl pointed garden walls that form a square front garden. In the centre of the east wall, there are a pair of corniced rubble gate piers topped with ogee caps and finials, with a similar entrance on the west side of the garden, though it no longer has gate piers. Additionally, there is a small low gabled rubble garden house incorporated into the southwest angle of the garden wall.

Local climate

Brightmony House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% 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 0.3°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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