Westerton Farmhouse is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 1980. 1 related planning application.

Westerton Farmhouse

WRENN ID: distant-belfry-swallow
Grade: C
Local Planning Authority: Aberdeenshire
Constituency: West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country: Scotland
Date first listed: 25 November 1980
Address: Westerton Farmhouse, AB34 5AY
OS grid reference: NJ 577 004
Coordinates: 57.09334, -2.69821
Source: Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Westerton Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse, with later additions constructed shortly afterwards. The original part is a single-storey structure with an attic, built of coursed rubble and features a two-window front and a central doorway. It includes canted bay-windows. Later additions, each with a single window, are gabled and roofed.

Local climate

Westerton Farmhouse receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 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.

Westerton Farmhouse

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