Clifton Cottage, Bridge Street, Fordyce is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Clifton Cottage, Bridge Street, Fordyce

WRENN ID
odd-keystone-grain
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 February 1972
Type
Cottage
Address
Clifton Cottage, Bridge Street, Fordyce, AB45 2SW
OS grid reference
NJ 555 638
Coordinates
57.6623, -2.74698
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Clifton Cottage is a single-storey cottage dating from around 1830, built over a raised basement on sloping ground. It features a canted north gable and is constructed of rubble with tooled rubble dressings. The entrance is recessed and accessed by steps, with a raised ground floor window in the canted gable and smaller windows on each of the three faces of the raised basement. The windows primarily have 4-pane glazing. The cottage has coped wallhead stacks and a shallow piended platform slate roof with projecting eaves.

Local climate

Clifton Cottage, Bridge Street, Fordyce sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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