Monboddo House is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 1972. 1 related planning application.
Monboddo House
- WRENN ID
- far-plinth-heath
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1972
- Address
- Monboddo House, AB30 1JT
- OS grid reference
- NO 744 782
- Coordinates
- 56.89482, -2.42076
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Monboddo House is a dated 1635, rectangular-plan house with a stair projection at the rear. The house was altered in 1867 by James Matthews, and reconstructed in 1978-79 by Christopher Davey. The main north frontage is harled with margins and features three windows and two Victorian gablet dormers centred above the outer windows. The corners have corbelled turrets with conical roofs. A lower, slightly later two-storey east wing exhibits a masonry dormerhead dating to 1867. The west gable is windowless and features a 1635 armorial panel. The south elevation has been substantially reconstructed. The building has a slated roof, with new chimney stacks built following the removal of earlier Matthew’s skews and shafted chimneys. Interior detail was lost due to vandalism in the mid-1970s; this included a fine first-floor panelled room. The house is associated with Lord Monboddo and Dr Johnson, who visited in 1773. References include NSA XI 88 and Boswell's Tour in The Hebrides.
Local climate
Monboddo House receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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