Bothy, Aden Country Park is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 July 2007.
Bothy, Aden Country Park
- WRENN ID
- crooked-fireplace-birch
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 July 2007
- OS grid reference
- NJ 982 478
- Coordinates
- 57.52113, -2.03046
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Walled Garden at Aden Country Park dates from 1766 but was likely rebuilt in the early to mid-19th century. It is a fine rectangular-plan walled garden located at the center of the Aden estate, near a semicircular steading. The garden features a piend-roofed bothy, a potting shed, and a gardener's cottage. It is constructed of random rubble with squared quoins, irregular rubble coping, and segmental-headed openings. A carved stone above the coping on the north side reads '17 M F WATT 66'.
The bothy is a single-storey and attic structure with three bays, positioned at the northwest corner of the garden. It has a boarded timber door at the center, flanked by windows in the side bays, and a high wallhead above. The slated roof includes a small traditional rooflight, and the timber sash and case windows feature an 8-pane glazing pattern. There is a wallhead stack on the west side. Inside, the bothy is timber-lined and includes a narrow winding timber staircase and an open fire.
The potting shed is a long, low rubble lean-to structure that adjoins the outer elevation of the northern garden wall and connects to the bothy on the west side.
The head gardener's house is a single-storey, three-bay, gabled building located at the northwest corner of the garden wall.
Local climate
Bothy, Aden Country Park receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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