Foveran House is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. 2 related planning applications.
Foveran House
- WRENN ID
- watchful-pewter-jackdaw
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- Address
- Foveran House, AB41 6AP
- OS grid reference
- NJ 991 242
- Coordinates
- 57.30875, -2.01597
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Foveran House is a large house built in 1771. It was constructed for an Aberdeen merchant on the site of the former castle of the Turings of Foveran, of which no remains are visible. The original house is a two-storey and basement structure with a five-window front, built of quoined granite ashlar. A central wallhead gable, a porch, and a see-back are prominent features. Later, single-storey wings were added, along with considerable alterations and additions in 1885 by Matthews and Mackenzie. This work included the addition of a harled tower with ogee-capped, Jacobean-style angle turrets which form a court. An unfortunate, late 1st-floor stuccoed addition was built over the porch. References to the house can be found in the New Statistical Account, volume XII, page 701, and within office papers belonging to Matthews and Mackenzie, as detailed by John Marr FRIBA. Information was also provided by Miss F. M. Mackenzie.
Local climate
Foveran 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 greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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 — 2 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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