Kincraig House is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. House. 4 related planning applications.
Kincraig House
- WRENN ID
- last-hinge-frost
- 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
- Kincraig House, PH21 1NA
- OS grid reference
- NH 826 063
- Coordinates
- 57.1326, -3.94027
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kincraig House is a late 18th century, symmetrical, two-storey and attic house facing southeast. It features three bays and has slightly advanced single-storey wings at the rear, forming a U-shaped courtyard. The construction includes pinned random rubble with tooled granite ashlar margins and dressings, and harled flanks and rear.
The house has a shallow advanced central bay with a central door that has a radial fanlight, which is obscured by a wide single-storey porch added in the later 19th century, made of rubble with contrasting tooled sandstone dressings. The first floor has a simple Venetian window with blind side lights, and there is a blocking course topped with three urn finials. A bandcourse runs just below the wallhead, and there are two piended dormers.
Each front gable of the flanking wings features a simple Venetian window with blind side lights on the right, and there are later piended smallhead dormers on the southwest return elevation. The house has 2- and 4-pane glazing, with end stacks on the central block and ridge stacks on the wings, all beneath slate roofs.
At the rear, there is a projecting bowed centre stairwell with a truncated roof. Inside, the hall has a pair of reeded pilasters (though the capitals are missing), and the stairwell features turned wooden balusters. Decorative plaster friezes can be found in the hall, a first-floor bedroom, and the ground floor drawing room, where there is another pair of reeded pilasters with Corinthian capitals flanking an alcove. The drawing room and bedroom both have carved chimneypieces, along with beaded panelled window shutters and doors.
To the west of the house is a meat larder situated on a knoll, constructed of square rubble and featuring a small cellar. The north elevation has a central door, some of which is blocked, and it has a pyramidal slate roof. The interior of the meat larder is plain and in poor condition, with a central beam studded with large iron meat hooks.
Local climate
Kincraig House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 85 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 67 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 — 4 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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