Balavil Mains And Steading is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. House. 10 related planning applications.
Balavil Mains And Steading
- WRENN ID
- tattered-plinth-lichen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Balavil Mains And Steading, PH21 1LU
- OS grid reference
- NH 789 022
- Coordinates
- 57.09551, -3.99873
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Balavil Mains and Steading is a dwelling built around 1800, featuring a symmetrical two-storey, three-bay design. It has later irregular single-storey wings with an attic at the east and west gables, which return at the west to create a hollow square with the steading. The exterior is finished in harl pointed rubble with tooled rubble dressings.
The main entrance is located at the center, concealed by a square porch that includes a side entrance and a piended slate roof. The west return wing has later dormers that break the wallhead, and there are some later enlarged windows with multi-pane glazing. The building has end and ridge stacks and is topped with slate roofs. A later bathroom wing extends from the center rear, flanked by large modern ground floor windows.
Inside, the current drawing room is located in the west and features a simple marble chimney piece from around 1800, which has been re-used from Balavil House. The single-storey U-plan steading encloses the rear court, with the entrance flanked to the east by a single-storey, three-bay range that includes an apex bellcote, all covered with slate roofs.
Local climate
Balavil Mains And Steading sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 86 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 68 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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