Breda is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. House. 4 related planning applications.

Breda

WRENN ID
half-pewter-meadow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 April 1971
Type
House
Address
Breda, AB33 8NN
OS grid reference
NJ 548 166
Coordinates
57.23856, -2.74918
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Breda is a building designed by A. Marshall Mackenzie of Matthews and Mackenzie, completed in 1894. It features a main block that is two stories and an attic, or three stories, and includes a circular entrance tower with a conical roof. There is also a single-storey wing with an attic, which has a diagonally set angle tower that is corbelled to a square shape at the first floor. The structure is made of coursed red granite and is designed in the 16th-century Scots manner. The original house to the west was demolished in 1963.

Local climate

Breda receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% 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 66 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 45 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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