Ury House is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 March 1990. 7 related planning applications.
Ury House
- WRENN ID
- dark-screen-wagtail
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1990
- Address
- Ury House, AB39 3ST
- OS grid reference
- NO 859 877
- Coordinates
- 56.98046, -2.23289
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ury House is a country house, largely dating from 1855 and with an addition made in 1884. It was originally designed by John Baird of Glasgow. Now a roofless shell, the roof was removed after the Second World War. The house is constructed of ashlar stone, with sculpted detailing.
The original house is in a revived English Tudor/Jacobean style, characterised by an off-centre, tall square entrance tower with a porch-cochere. The main block has two and three storeys, with a variety of window openings, chiefly hood-moulded, and often mullioned. Some windows are canted or oriel. A large, mullioned and transomed window on the right-hand side of the tower likely lit a grand hall. Gabled dormer heads extend above the eaves, and bays projecting from the main wall are also gabled. Other details include engaged angle shafts, parapets, and stacks. The double-gabled return elevation to the right appears almost like a villa.
A wing was added to the left-hand side of the main front, breaching the front wall. This wing features a pair of crow-stepped gables and a buttressed, stepped, channeled, and rock-faced terrace wall.
Local climate
Ury House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 7 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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