Garden Cottage, Druminnor Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Cottage.
Garden Cottage, Druminnor Castle
- WRENN ID
- lesser-chapel-sunrise
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NJ 512 263
- Coordinates
- 57.32485, -2.81151
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Garden Cottage at Druminnor Castle dates from the 17th or early 18th century and was not originally built for domestic use. It is a single-storey building with an attic, featuring a rectangular shape and a lower single-storey section. The structure is made of split boulder rubble with pinnings and has straight skews with skewputs. Inside, stairs in the eastern portion lead to a small vaulted chamber and a tunnel, which has not yet been fully excavated.
Local climate
Garden Cottage, Druminnor Castle 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 lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 67 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 50 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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