51 South Street, Aberchirder is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 March 1994. Cottage.

51 South Street, Aberchirder

WRENN ID
knotted-kitchen-owl
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
Cottage
OS grid reference
NJ 628 525
Coordinates
57.56111, -2.62283
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

51 South Street in Aberchirder is a late 19th-century cottage featuring a single storey and an attic, designed in a T-plan layout. The exterior is harled with ashlar dressings. The central entrance has a door topped with a letterbox fanlight. On either side of the entrance, there are canted bays at ground level adorned with billet moulding. Above, the attic has two canted, piend-roofed dormers that are slate-hung and also feature billet moulding. The windows are sash and case style with a 4-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with grey slates, and the building has ashlar coped skews with moulded skewputts, as well as coped ashlar stacks with decorative cans and thackstanes. Additionally, there is a low ashlar coped rubble retaining wall that includes decorative cast-iron railings and a gate.

Local climate

51 South Street, Aberchirder 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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