Ballantruan is a Grade A listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. 2 related planning applications.
Ballantruan
- WRENN ID
- sunken-gateway-amber
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1972
- Address
- Ballantruan, AB37 9AQ
- OS grid reference
- NJ 147 252
- Coordinates
- 57.30994, -3.41717
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ballantruan is a farmhouse dating from the mid-to-later 18th century. It is a 2-storey, 3-bay wide building with a single-storey, 2-bay wing projecting from the north-east gable. The farmhouse is built of harled rubble. A wide central entrance features a double-leaf panelled door. Windows have 12 panes, except for the smaller first-floor windows which have 9 panes. A small stair window is located on the centre of the rear elevation. The building has end stacks and a roof covered in Tomintoul slate.
The interior of the right-hand ground floor room retains some panelling. The left-hand ground floor room features extensive panelling, which obscures former box-beds. There are also two panelled cupboards set at an angle and well-finished ceiling joists. Raised and fielded panelled doors are found throughout the building. The survival of these good panelled interiors is particularly notable.
Victor Gaffney’s 1970 book, Tominoul, Its Glens and Its People, mentions Ballantruan on page 48. The property is located within the Cairngorms National Park.
Local climate
Ballantruan sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 81 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 62 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 — 2 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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