Ben View, Main Street, Kippen is a Grade C listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 September 1979. 3 related planning applications.
Ben View, Main Street, Kippen
- WRENN ID
- veiled-ember-grain
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Stirling
- Constituency
- Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 September 1979
- OS grid reference
- NS 651 947
- Coordinates
- 56.12664, -4.17074
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ben View is a mid-19th century, single-storey and attic, three-bay house situated on Main Street in Kippen, on the south side of the road. The house is constructed of finely stugged ashlar with polished dressings. A central door is framed by a bracketted hood. A canted bay window is located to the left, while a bipartite window sits to the right. Single windows are set in the gable heads. A small, central gabled dormer window is present in the roof, which is covered with slate. Chimneys are placed at the ends of the building. A set-back addition extends to the west.
Local climate
Ben View, Main Street, Kippen sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 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 78% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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