Mains Of Dunphail is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 November 1987. Farmhouse.
Mains Of Dunphail
- WRENN ID
- tenth-wall-larch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NJ 008 482
- Coordinates
- 57.51383, -3.65603
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Mains of Dunphail is an irregular single and two-storey Italianate farmhouse designed in the style of William Playfair, dating from around 1830. The building features harl pointed rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. The main block is square and two-storey with a single bay, showcasing paired round-headed windows on each face. The upper windows are connected by a continuous cill band or string course. It has a shallow slated pyramidal roof with deep bracketed eaves. The entrance is located in a single-storey range within a square-headed recess. The glazing is varied, and the house includes end and wallhead stacks, all under slate roofs with bracketed eaves.
Adjacent to the farmhouse is a former cartshed and granary, which is a single storey with a loft and has a south-facing three-bay elevation linked to the house by a short screen wall. This structure is also built of rubble with tooled ashlar dressings and margins. It features three tall round-headed cart bays, some of which are now infilled, and regular paired round-headed loft windows positioned close under the projecting eaves. There is a coped end stack at the east with unusual panelled detailing at the base, a bellcote at the west, and a slate roof.
Local climate
Mains Of Dunphail 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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% 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 0.3°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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