Dovecot And Gate Piers, Gazebo, Walled Garden, Garden, Culter House is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Gardens.
Dovecot And Gate Piers, Gazebo, Walled Garden, Garden, Culter House
- WRENN ID
- sacred-terrace-cobweb
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Constituency
- Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- Type
- Gardens
- OS grid reference
- NJ 844 013
- Coordinates
- 57.10264, -2.25762
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The dovecot and gate piers, gazebo, and walled garden at Culter House date from around 1730 and feature a large formal layout. The gate piers, which are rusticated and topped with balls, are located to the northeast and southwest of the northern forecourt, with two additional pairs corresponding to the south. The garden is enclosed by large rubble walls and is symmetrically arranged, featuring both a dovecot and a gazebo. Both the dovecot and gazebo are built from rubble in a square plan and topped with pyramid roofs.
Local climate
Dovecot And Gate Piers, Gazebo, Walled Garden, Garden, Culter House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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