Gazebo, Home Farm, Kemnay House is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 September 1984.
Gazebo, Home Farm, Kemnay House
- WRENN ID
- third-cupola-grain
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 September 1984
- OS grid reference
- NJ 732 154
- Coordinates
- 57.22886, -2.44482
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a single-storey and attic apple house, likely built in the later 18th century. It is rectangular in plan and features a pavilion roof. The walls are constructed of coursed rubble with squared stone margins and a distinctive red cherry caulking. Chamfered arrises add to the building's appearance.
The south-east elevation has a window centrally placed at ground level, with a wallhead chimney above. The south-west elevation is distinguished by a pedimented hayloft-style door that breaks through the eaves. A timber door is centrally positioned on the north-east elevation at ground level. The north-west elevation, facing the road, is blank, with a short section of coped wall attached to the outer left.
The window contains 8 panes of fixed glazing. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, and a coped ashlar stack punctuates the skyline.
Originally listed as ‘Gazebo of Old Walled Garden’, the structure is now known as the Apple House. It was not depicted on a plan of Kemnay Farm, Gardens and New Ground from 1759, but it was shown on a ‘Plan of Farmlands and Policies of Kemnay’ dated 1790. Notably, neither plan references a walled garden.
Local climate
Gazebo, Home Farm, Kemnay House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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