Arbuthnot House, Broad Street, Peterhead is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Municipal building. 5 related planning applications.

Arbuthnot House, Broad Street, Peterhead

WRENN ID
fallow-span-sorrel
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 April 1971
Type
Municipal building
Address
Arbuthnot House, Broad Street, Peterhead, AB42 1DA
OS grid reference
NK 136 460
Coordinates
57.50457, -1.77444
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Arbuthnot House, located on Broad Street in Peterhead, was built in 1805 and incorporates elements from an earlier house. It is a two-storey building with a basement and features a five-window front. There is a single-storey wing that has been raised to two storeys. The entrance has a rusticated and keyblocked doorpiece, and there is a central attic pediment with a round-headed window. The area piers are topped with balls, and the front has a concave shape facing Union Street, complete with a pediment and a columned central tripartite window. At the back, there is a double bow front. Inside, the fine entrance hall is adorned with reeded columns, leading to a two-storey galleried hall with apsed ends. The high-quality interior work on the ground floor has been somewhat diminished by the removal of chimney pieces.

Local climate

Arbuthnot House, Broad Street, Peterhead receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% 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 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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