Knockview, Police Station, Cornhill is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 March 1994. Police station. 1 related planning application.

Knockview, Police Station, Cornhill

WRENN ID
ragged-joist-blackthorn
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 March 1994
Type
Police station
Address
Knockview, Police Station, Cornhill, AB45 2AY
OS grid reference
NJ 584 580
Coordinates
57.61071, -2.6968
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Knockview is a late 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay policeman's house and police station, with a single-storey wing to the north. The building is constructed from squared and snecked whinstone, featuring contrasting ashlar dressings.

The west elevation of the house has a central door with timber pilastered jambs and a letterbox fanlight. There are bipartite windows flanking the door at ground level, with stone mullions. The outer bays on the first floor have windows that break the eaves in gabled dormerheads. A string course divides the ground and first floors, with downpipe loops.

On the north elevation, the single-storey police station is recessed. It features a panelled door with a letterbox fanlight in the chamfered, gabled northwest angle, with "Police Station" embossed on the lintel. To the right, there is a window, and three windows face north, two of which are likely for cell accommodation.

The windows throughout are sash and case, with nine-pane upper sashes and plate glass lowers. The roof is covered with grey-blue slates, and the eaves are overhanging with exposed rafters. The gables have barge boards and kingposts, and there are corniced ashlar stacks.

The boundary walls consist of low rubble with ashlar saddleback coping, ending in pyramidal capped gatepiers. The walls are topped by decorative fleur-de-lys railings, with both pedestrian and two-leaf drive gates.

Local climate

Knockview, Police Station, Cornhill receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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