Binscarth House is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 March 1988. House.
Binscarth House
- WRENN ID
- unlit-transept-thrush
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 March 1988
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- HY 348 142
- Coordinates
- 59.01007, -3.13631
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Binscarth House is a mid 19th century, two-storey house featuring Tudor details. The elevations are characterized by shallow advanced gables that have kneeler skewputts and finials, with one crow-stepped gable suggesting the incorporation of earlier work. The wall-head dormer heads are similarly detailed. The house is constructed of stone with ashlar dressings and has small-paned sash windows. The roofs are slated, and there are prominent chimney stacks with diamond flues. The entrance elevation has three bays, with an inner doorway that features a Renaissance-style pedimented head and two narrow lights above it. There is also a projecting ground floor window in the gable to the right.
Local climate
Binscarth House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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