Farmhouse, Blairfordel is a Grade C listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 July 2004.

Farmhouse, Blairfordel

WRENN ID
silver-window-harvest
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Perth and Kinross
Constituency
Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 July 2004
OS grid reference
NT 143 957
Coordinates
56.14713, -3.38045
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The property comprises a house, steading, gate piers and boundary walls, and a bridge, all dating from the earlier to mid-19th century, originally serving the Blair Adam Estate and now used as a farmhouse.

The house is a restrained and simple former inn and post office. The principal elevation is of symmetrical coursed ashlar, and features a picturesque timber Doric columned porch and segmentally headed windows. Bulls eye windows are set within the gables. Originally possibly T-plan, the house is now a rectangular shape due to the addition of gabled wings to the northwest. The side and rear elevations are of snecked rubble with dressed openings and quoins. The render below the eaves of the principal elevation suggests that the house may have once had overhanging eaves that were later cut down. The roof is pitched slate with cast iron rainwater goods. Squat polygonal ashlar stacks with circular cans provide chimney provision.

The U-plan steading is situated to the north, with a cartshed to the northeast, adjoined by a wall extending west to the roadside. The cartshed has two openings, the one to the right close to the advanced left wing of the main house. Later brick and stone forestairs block the cart arch to the inner face of the left gable. Various openings are present to the inner face of the main block, some inserted later, and a cart arch to the far right is partly obscured by the advanced right wing, with a bulls eye window set within the gable. Few openings are visible to the rear of the steading. A small single-storey outshot is located to the rear which may have housed water-powered machinery, as a burn runs underneath. The steading roof is pitched slate, though in poor condition in some areas. To the north of the steading is a probably later 19th-century, rectangular-plan, two-storey building, likely a former granary, with a smaller single-storey and attic addition to the southeast. This granary has snecked rubble with dressed margins and quoins, a corrugated asbestos roof to the two-storey section and grey slates to the single-storey section. A rendered stone and brick covered cattle court, which is not listed, adjoins the rear of this building.

Low, square-plan, coursed ashlar gate piers with squat pyramidal caps are located at the southwest roadside, with a snecked rubble wall adjoining to the left. A stretch of wall to the south corner of the complex encloses a lower field and outbuildings, constructed of coped random rubble and swept at the corner.

The bridge, constructed of simple, single span random rubble, dates from the 19th century and carries a farm track over the Kinnaird Burn. It has a coped parapet.

Local climate

Farmhouse, Blairfordel receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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