General Merchant's, Inverurie Street, Auchenblae is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 1980. House.

General Merchant's, Inverurie Street, Auchenblae

WRENN ID
fossil-barrel-briar
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 November 1980
Type
House
Address
General Merchant's, Inverurie Street, Auchenblae, AB30 1XS
OS grid reference
NO 726 790
Coordinates
56.90193, -2.45086
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building, known as the General Merchant's on Inverurie Street in Auchenblae, dates from the early 19th century. It consists of a pair of two-storey houses that are smooth rendered. The northern house features two windows and a central boarded door, with windows that have been enlarged for shop use. The southern house has three windows and also includes a central boarded door. The roof is slated with straight skews and block ends, and there are brick stacks at the ends. At the rear, there is a two-storey addition and a one-storey wing to the north, with steps leading to a first-floor door at the rear of the southern house.

Local climate

General Merchant's, Inverurie Street, Auchenblae receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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