Steading, Alvie Manse is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. House.
Steading, Alvie Manse
- WRENN ID
- turning-beam-bistre
- Grade
- C
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NH 863 093
- Coordinates
- 57.16047, -3.88089
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Steading at Alvie Manse is a building originally constructed as a two-storey, three-bay house by John MacCulloch between 1807 and 1808, with repairs made in 1834. It was significantly altered by Thomas MacKenzie between 1848 and 1849, transforming it into a three-storey, south-facing L-plan house featuring a drum tower entrance porch at the southwest re-entrant angle, which is corbelled out to form a square cap-house at the second floor. The exterior is harled with red ashlar dressings, and it includes moulded architraves around the doorway and windows, as well as a panelled door. The south gable has a canted bay window on the ground floor, with regular fenestration above, mainly consisting of two-pane glazing. The building also features crowsteps, coped end stacks, and a slate roof.
At the rear of the house, there are later tripartite windows, and a later single-storey and attic wing projects to the east.
Inside, there is a later 19th-century pine staircase with a turned balustrade and panelled square newels topped with ball finials, along with simple moulded ceiling cornices.
The steading consists of a single-storey and loft L-plan range, built of harl pointed rubble with rubble dressings and a local slate roof.
Local climate
Steading, Alvie Manse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 82 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 64 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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