Home Farm, Drummuir Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1988. Farm steading.
Home Farm, Drummuir Castle
- WRENN ID
- small-mortar-alder
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1988
- Type
- Farm steading
- OS grid reference
- NJ 372 444
- Coordinates
- 57.48612, -3.04792
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Home Farm at Drummuir Castle is a substantial 2-storey Baronial farm building designed by architects William Smith and William Bruce in 1859. The structure is arranged in the form of a hollow square and features harled walls with tooled ashlar margins and dressings. The main elevations face southeast and southwest, showcasing a wide gabled design with nine bays. The center bay is slightly advanced and gabled, each bay includes a tall round-headed archway that leads to the inner courtyard. The southwest elevation has a pigeon loft with flight-holes above.
The building includes slightly advanced and gabled angle bays, along with a 2-storey angle drumtower at the south, which is lit by narrow stairlights and topped with a slated bellcast conical roof. Various loft openings are present under gablets at the wallhead. Most of the windows are now louvred, although some 2-light glazing remains in the drumtower. The design features crowstepped gables, ridge stacks, louvred cupolas, and slate roofs.
The interior is in poor condition, with a modern grain dryer installed in the northeast range.
Local climate
Home Farm, Drummuir Castle 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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