Fordoun House is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 1972. 2 related planning applications.
Fordoun House
- WRENN ID
- distant-brass-scarlet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1972
- Address
- Fordoun House, AB30 1ST
- OS grid reference
- NO 732 770
- Coordinates
- 56.88373, -2.44015
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dated 1712, as indicated by a lintel inscription, Fordoun House is a former dower house, now used as a farmhouse. The main block is a large, three-storey, five-window gabled structure, with a harled exterior and a modern glass porch. It features a slated roof with straight skews and substantial end stacks. A single-storey wing is also present.
Local climate
Fordoun 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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