Station House, Balkerach Street, Doune is a Grade C listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 September 1979. Station house. 1 related planning application.

Station House, Balkerach Street, Doune

WRENN ID
silver-landing-winter
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Stirling
Constituency
Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
6 September 1979
Type
Station house
Address
Station House, Balkerach Street, Doune, FK16 6DE
OS grid reference
NN 725 017
Coordinates
56.19133, -4.05612
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Station House on Balkerach Street in Doune was built around 1875. It is a single storey and attic structure with three bays, designed in a picturesque style. The building is constructed from snecked, squared rubble, featuring rock-faced dressings and quoins. The central entrance has a gabled door adorned with barge boards. The south gable end includes a bipartite window with a single light above it. The house has chamfered stacks at the ends and is topped with a slate roof.

Local climate

Station House, Balkerach Street, Doune sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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