Terrace Walls, Ury House is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 March 1990.
Terrace Walls, Ury House
- WRENN ID
- inner-corbel-hazel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 March 1990
- OS grid reference
- NO 859 877
- Coordinates
- 56.98061, -2.23269
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a country house built in 1855 by John Baird of Glasgow, with a wing added in 1884 by an unknown architect. The house is now a roofless shell, as the roof was removed after the Second World War. The building is constructed of ashlar stone with elaborate sculpted decoration.
The original house is in a revived English Tudor/Jacobean style and features a tall, square entrance tower with a porch-cochere set slightly off-centre. The house has two or three storeys and a variety of window styles, primarily hood-moulded, often with mullions. Some windows are canted or oriel windows. A large, mullioned and transomed window on the right side of the tower likely illuminated a grand hall. Gabled dormers extend above the eaves, and some bays project forward from the main wall face and are also gabled. Other features include engaged angle shafts, parapets, and chimney stacks. The house has a double-gabled design, and the return elevation on the right side resembles a villa.
A wing is situated on the left side of the main front, where the front wall has been breached. This wing features a pair of crow-stepped gables and a buttressed, stepped, channeled, and rock-faced terrace wall.
Local climate
Terrace Walls, Ury House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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