Kennels Cottage, Forglen House is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 March 1994. Estate cottage.

Kennels Cottage, Forglen House

WRENN ID
guardian-shingle-moth
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 March 1994
Type
Estate cottage
OS grid reference
NJ 697 512
Coordinates
57.55032, -2.50744
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Kennels Cottage, dating from the mid 19th century, is possibly designed by A and W Reid of Elgin. This two-storey estate cottage features a range of outbuildings and dog kennels located behind it. The exterior is harled, accented with Turriff sandstone margins. The central entrance has a two-leaf door with a letterbox strip fanlight, and is sheltered by a gabled wooden porch supported by four tree trunk columns. Ground floor windows flank the entrance, while the upper floor features windows in the outer bays that break the eaves, set in ashlar gabled dormer heads topped with trefoil finials. A skylight is positioned at the center.

The cottage has sash and case windows with a four-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with grey slates and features ashlar coped skews and stacks. At the rear, there is a range of single-storey outbuildings that are also harled with ashlar margins, featuring boarded doors and grey slate roofs with ashlar coped skews, and a ball finial on the mutual gable. Additionally, there is a piend-roofed single-storey kennel range with two paved runs, enclosed by simple cast-iron railings topped with ball finials.

Local climate

Kennels Cottage, Forglen House receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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