Balranald Church, North Uist is a Grade C listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 January 1980. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Balranald Church, North Uist
- WRENN ID
- twisted-moulding-alder
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Constituency
- Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1980
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Balranald Church, North Uist, HS6 5DW
- OS grid reference
- NF 726 702
- Coordinates
- 57.6032, -7.48211
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Balranald Church, located in North Uist, was designed by architect Alexander Shairp of Oban and is dated 1894 on the west gable. This T-plan Gothic church features porches in the re-entrant angles, with the southern porch forming the base of a two-stage square tower. The church is constructed from rubble with concrete dressings. It has pointed three-light gable windows, while most other openings are shouldered. The upper stage of the tower includes twin lancets on each face, recessed in a rectangular panel with corbels above, string courses, and a pyramidal roof that is enclosed by a crenellated parapet. A small gabled vestry is located on the east wall, and the church has slate roofs.
Inside, there is some simple ornamentation on the pews and a hexagonal pulpit, which features a gabled back board and flanking doors, along with a boarded ceiling. The church is enclosed by rubble-built walls and square concrete gatepiers topped with raised pyramidal caps.
Local climate
Balranald Church, North Uist sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,480 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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 — 3 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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