Swiss Cottage, Ballindalloch Castle is a Grade A listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 November 1987.

Swiss Cottage, Ballindalloch Castle

WRENN ID
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Grade
A
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 182 359
Coordinates
57.40667, -3.36231
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a two-story Swiss cottage house dating to around 1860. It has a rectangular plan with a rear wing facing east. The ground floor is constructed from coursed rubble with tooled rubble dressings, while the first floor is weather-boarded and encircled by a wide verandah. The verandah is supported by decorative brackets and features a wooden balustrade with silhouette balusters. The windows are four-light and originally had lattice-pane glazing, now featuring single panes. Deep projecting eaves are supported by shaped brackets, matching those on the verandah, and by angle posts rising from the verandah balustrade. The roof is slate-covered and features slender wooden apex finials, as well as end and wallhead stacks topped with gablet caps and chimney cans.

Local climate

Swiss Cottage, Ballindalloch Castle 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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