Walled Garden and Doocot at Findrack House, Torphins is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971.
Walled Garden and Doocot at Findrack House, Torphins
- WRENN ID
- waning-loft-reed
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- OS grid reference
- NJ 608 048
- Coordinates
- 57.13331, -2.64846
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an early 18th century, or possibly 17th century, walled garden with a doocot located at Findrack House, near Torphins. The garden is enclosed by a substantial, old coped wall on its north and west sides. Situated at the southwest corner of the garden is a circular doocot, constructed of rubble with pinnings and capped with a conical roof. Two table sundials are present within the garden. A sundial, dated 1846 and created by Adam Charles, stands within the garden and features a metal dial set on a baluster. A stone, octagonal table sundial, dating from around 1850, is located to the south of the garden. Historic maps show this complex on Ordnance Survey maps surveyed in 1865 and published in 1869, and again on maps surveyed in 1900 and published in the same year.
Local climate
Walled Garden and Doocot at Findrack House, Torphins receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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