Auchintoul is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Towerhouse. 1 related planning application.
Auchintoul
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-nave-gold
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1972
- Type
- Towerhouse
- Address
- Auchintoul, AB54 7UB
- OS grid reference
- NJ 612 519
- Coordinates
- 57.55571, -2.64843
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Auchintoul is a late 16th century tower house that features a 1711-12 addition, which is a three-storey, four-bay structure in an L-plan layout on the east side. The building has undergone significant alterations, and little of the original house remains. It is constructed from harled rubble with ashlar dressings.
The east elevation has a four-bay frontage with four windows on each floor; the windows on the principal floor are taller and break the eaves at the second floor, which features piended dormerheads. The north elevation includes an enlarged doorway at the ground floor, with a courtyard curtain wall adjoining to the right that has an arched pend. The south elevation is two bays wide, with two windows on each floor, also breaking the eaves at the second floor as noted previously.
On the west elevation, there is a lean-to addition at ground level and a 17th century stair tower with a conical roof to the south, along with a later gable end to the right. The courtyard contains the remains of former barmkin walls and parts of the earlier house, including a cellar, a spiral stair, and fireplaces. The building is currently in a ruinous state.
The interior has been gutted and is currently without window fittings. The roof has been replaced with graded grey slates, featuring ashlar coped skews, moulded skewputts, and coped ashlar stacks.
Local climate
Auchintoul receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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 0.3°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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