Blervie is a Grade A listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 April 1989. House. 4 related planning applications.
Blervie
- WRENN ID
- first-forge-rush
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Blervie, IV36 2RH
- OS grid reference
- NJ 062 570
- Coordinates
- 57.5938, -3.57029
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Blervie is a house dated 1776, facing south, with two storeys and a dormerless attic. It features a symmetrical five-bay design, constructed with pinned, squared rubble on the front and harl pointed rubble on the flanks, accented by polished ashlar dressings and margins. The centre bay is slightly advanced and gabletted, featuring a rusticated doorpiece, a small attic window, and an apex stack. The east gable has single windows on the ground, first floor, and attic, while the west gable has paired windows on the ground and first floors, along with a similar attic window, all with 12-pane glazing.
The house includes rusticated quoins and decorative lipped scroll skewputts, with the southwest corner dated and featuring a carved nautilus shell on the gable faces. The ashlar end stacks have moulded copes, and the roof is covered with slate. There is also a later single-storey, three-bay rear wing.
Inside, the entrance and stair hall contains a cantilevered staircase that rises full-height around a square stairwell. The staircase has reused treads with moulded risers, which are truncated at the outside edge, and the underside is recut with the date 1776. Twisted wrought-iron balusters are found between the ground and first floors, with turned wooden balusters above. The ceilings have simple moulded cornices, and there are raised and fielded panelled doors and window shutters. The dining room features a black marble chimneypiece, while the drawing room has a later 19th-century carved chimneypiece with a white marble slip. One attic room contains a reused late 17th-century moulded chimneypiece, possibly from Blervie Castle.
Local climate
Blervie 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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