Mains Of Thornton is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. House.
Mains Of Thornton
- WRENN ID
- dim-steel-yew
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NJ 820 243
- Coordinates
- 57.30899, -2.2997
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Mains of Thornton is a building constructed shortly after 1744. It is two stories tall with a dormerless attic and features five windows with chamfered margins. The walls are notably battered, and there is a large area of blind wall above the first-floor windows. The building has a simple rectangular plan and includes a later single-storey piended back wing. Inside, the north ground floor room is simply panelled, and there is a straightforward railed stair with console treatment at the treads. The woodwork throughout the building is original.
Local climate
Mains Of Thornton receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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