James Sheriff's Bridge Of Alford Stores And Post Office, Bridge Of Alford is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 April 2002. Former shop and lodgings. 2 related planning applications.
James Sheriff's Bridge Of Alford Stores And Post Office, Bridge Of Alford
- WRENN ID
- gilded-merlon-alder
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 April 2002
- Type
- Former shop and lodgings
- Address
- James Sheriff's Bridge Of Alford Stores And Post Office, Bridge Of Alford, AB33 8QJ
- OS grid reference
- NJ 561 172
- Coordinates
- 57.24368, -2.72872
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
James Sheriff's Bridge of Alford Stores and Post Office is a former shop and lodgings built around 1885. It is a single-storey building with an attic and features five bays, highlighted by a prominent gabled south elevation. The structure is made of squared and droved granite courses, with coped, shouldered skews, plain margins, and projecting cills on the windows.
The south elevation has a three-bay gable end, with a central two-leaf timber panelled door that includes a letterbox fanlight and a plain shield above a roundel. This is flanked by plain rectangular window openings. At the gablehead, there is a semicircular-arched window with a projecting keystone. The apex is adorned with a large stone spur finial that supports an ornate cast-iron weather-vane.
The north elevation is obscured by an adjoining building. The east elevation is largely intact up to wallhead height, displaying irregular fenestration on the ground floor and timber panelled doors in the fourth and fifth bays. The west elevation is partially obscured on the right by the adjoining Donbank and also features irregular fenestration on the left.
The interior of the building is currently vacant and was destroyed by fire around 1970.
Local climate
James Sheriff's Bridge Of Alford Stores And Post Office, Bridge Of Alford receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% 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 66 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 45 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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