Westwood Cottage, Forglen House Policies is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 March 1994. Cottage.
Westwood Cottage, Forglen House Policies
- WRENN ID
- empty-pilaster-linden
- 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 686 519
- Coordinates
- 57.55631, -2.52631
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Westwood Cottage, located within the Forglen House Policies, is a single-storey estate cottage dating from the mid-19th century. The cottage features three bays and is harled, with Turriff sandstone margins. The central door is topped by a letterbox fanlight and is flanked by painted windows, with an additional window on the left return. A later gabled wooden porch with a finial and tree trunk columns has been added to the entrance. The windows are sash and case style, featuring a 12-pane glazing pattern. The building has ashlar coped skews, corniced stacks, and is covered with grey slates, with skylights present in the attics.
Local climate
Westwood Cottage, Forglen House Policies 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 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% 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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