Central School, Charlotte Street, Fraserburgh is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. School.

Central School, Charlotte Street, Fraserburgh

WRENN ID
quartered-gable-elm
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
School
Address
Central School, Charlotte Street, Fraserburgh, AB43 9LS
OS grid reference
NJ 994 667
Coordinates
57.69097, -2.01163
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Central School, located on Charlotte Street in Fraserburgh, was designed by James Matthews of Matthews and Mackenzie in 1882. This building is a tall, baronial style structure that is two stories high, made of rough granite ashlar with crowsteps and bullfaced lower courses. It features a prominent four-story saddleback clock tower, which includes a stair turret with an arched top stage and a candle-snuffer roof.

Local climate

Central School, Charlotte Street, Fraserburgh receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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