Kisters Cottage, The Old School House, Johnshaven is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 October 1990.
Kisters Cottage, The Old School House, Johnshaven
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-rubblework-lichen
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1990
- OS grid reference
- NO 794 670
- Coordinates
- 56.79477, -2.33761
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kisters Cottage, also known as The Old School House, is a terrace building comprised of a former school room and school house, with two cottages attached, constructed in two phases. The two two-storey, three-bay cottages located at the eastern end likely date to around 1850. The school room and school house were built in 1854.
The buildings are harled with long and short dressings, and have slate roofs. They feature corniced stacks, with a more elaborate design on the westernmost stack. The schoolhouse has two canted dormers to the attic space. The westernmost house has a central door, flanked by bipartites, which were likely inserted around 1870. A lower, contemporary lean-to extends from the western gable. The former school room projects centrally along the terrace, with a door to the left. A finialled gabled projection features a multi-pane sash and case window at ground level, with a smaller window in the gablehead. Fernlea, one of the cottages, has modern four-pane glazing.
Local climate
Kisters Cottage, The Old School House, Johnshaven 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 greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% 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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