Pitmain House, Kingussie Highland Folk Museum, Duke Street, Kingussie is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Dwelling. 1 related planning application.
Pitmain House, Kingussie Highland Folk Museum, Duke Street, Kingussie
- WRENN ID
- second-foundation-juniper
- 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
- Dwelling
- Address
- Pitmain House, Kingussie Highland Folk Museum, Duke Street, Kingussie, PH21 1JG
- OS grid reference
- NH 760 006
- Coordinates
- 57.08002, -4.04705
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Pitmain House, located in the Highland Folk Museum on Duke Street in Kingussie, dates from around 1790, with additions and alterations made between 1830 and 1840. This is a two-storey, symmetrical five-bay dwelling featuring an earlier 19th century gabled wing that projects to the west.
The central door is concealed by a later single-storey gabled porch. On either side of the porch are later tripartite windows from the 1830-40 period, which have wooden mullions. There are small first-floor windows in bays 2 (which is blocked) and 4, and these windows are raised through the wallhead in later 19th century gabled dormers located in bays 1, 3, and 5. The glazing is primarily composed of 2-, 9-, or 12-pane configurations.
The projecting gabled wing to the west features tripartite windows on both the ground and first floors. Additionally, there is a two-storey, two-bay wing at the rear. The house has end, ridge, and wallhead stacks, and is topped with slate roofs.
Local climate
Pitmain House, Kingussie Highland Folk Museum, Duke Street, Kingussie 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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