Avochie House is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971.
Avochie House
- WRENN ID
- buried-iron-ochre
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- OS grid reference
- NJ 533 466
- Coordinates
- 57.50748, -2.78065
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Avochie House is a small, rectangular tower house dating to the 16th and early 17th centuries. The building is approximately 45 feet by 21 feet, and is now much ruined, with only the east and west gables surviving. It is a single-storey structure with a double attic, built of rubble. A corbelled angle turret is located at the southeast corner, and it is unvaulted. The building's design is comparable to Ballinshoe Castle in Angus, although that structure is shorter, incorporates a basement floor, and lacks an upper attic. References to Avochie House can be found in the New Statistical Account, volume 12, page 1038. It is not referenced in Contributions & Discussions in Architecture or Giles' works.
Local climate
Avochie House 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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