Balnageith Farmhouse is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 April 1989.
Balnageith Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tangled-postern-weasel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1989
- OS grid reference
- NJ 025 577
- Coordinates
- 57.59891, -3.63259
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Balnageith Farmhouse is a two-story, three-bay house likely built around 1840, possibly by John Urquhart, an architect and builder from Forres. It faces east and presents a symmetrical facade. A single-story service wing is set back on the south gable. The walls are harl-pointed rubble with tooled and polished ashlar dressings. The central entrance is now masked by a modern glazed porch. Flanking windows are set in wide, simplified Egyptian-style surrounds, and the first-floor windows have a similar design, with blocked cills linked by a continuous cill band. The south gable has a regular two-bay fenestration, featuring four-pane glazing. The roof is a shallow piended slate roof with paired coped diamond flues set diagonally on rectangular bases.
The building was owned by the Leslie family of Balnageith from the 18th and 19th centuries, with the last owner being the Reverend William Leslie, Minister of St Andrews, Lhanbryde (1783-1839), who authored A General View of Agriculture for the Counties of Nairn and Moray in 1813. The farm steading is not included in the listing.
Local climate
Balnageith Farmhouse receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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