Lady Macpherson-Grant Hall, Ballindalloch is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 November 1987.

Lady Macpherson-Grant Hall, Ballindalloch

WRENN ID
bitter-gravel-peregrine
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 November 1987
OS grid reference
NJ 181 359
Coordinates
57.40655, -3.36394
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Lady Macpherson-Grant Hall, likely designed by A Marshall Mackenzie around 1871, is a T-plan building originally constructed as a school and schoolhouse. The main hall is a single-storey, three-bay rectangular structure facing east. A single-storey and attic dwelling projects at a right angle from the west elevation, while a two-storey drum tower stands in the northwest re-entrant angle, featuring an entrance at its base.

The building is constructed of rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. A central gabled porch on the east elevation has a pointed-headed entrance flanked by windows featuring a central wooden mullion. Three long, pointed-headed windows are found in the north gable, and a matching pair of windows appear in the south gable. The windows have decorative honeycomb glazing. A plank door is fitted with local wrought iron decorative hinges.

The entrance to the dwelling has a similar door and a single flanking window. A dormer window is present on the south elevation, and the windows throughout the dwelling are 4-pane. A stack with crowsteps is located at the end of the building. The roofs are slate, with fishscale slates covering the conical tower roof. Historical records, including a report in the Elgin Courant from August 4, 1871, document a bazaar held at Ballindalloch Castle to raise funds for the proposed school.

Local climate

Lady Macpherson-Grant Hall, Ballindalloch sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% 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 70 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 53 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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