42 Church Street, Fordyce is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Cottage.

42 Church Street, Fordyce

WRENN ID
stark-flagstone-elder
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 February 1972
Type
Cottage
Address
42 Church Street, Fordyce, AB45 2SL
OS grid reference
NJ 555 637
Coordinates
57.6614, -2.74733
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

42 Church Street in Fordyce is a mid-19th century single-storey cottage with an attic, originally built as two separate 2-bay dwellings. The cottage features a squared rubble frontage with tooled dressings. The entrance is off-centre and has a panelled door. The ground floor windows have 12-pane glazing, while the late 19th-century pair of canted dormers above have 4-pane glazing. The building has coped end stacks and a slate roof that includes a loft rooflight. At the rear, there is a single-storey, 2-bay wing. A low coped wall fronts the cottage.

Local climate

42 Church Street, Fordyce sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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