Crossbrae Cottage, Forglen House Policies is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 March 1994. Estate cottage.
Crossbrae Cottage, Forglen House Policies
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-cupola-grain
- 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
- Estate cottage
- OS grid reference
- NJ 694 524
- Coordinates
- 57.56112, -2.51157
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Crossbrae Cottage is a mid-19th century, single-storey and attic, three-bay estate cottage that features a later porch. The building is harled and has Turriff sandstone margins. In the center, there is a four-panelled door with a letterbox strip fanlight. The later wooden gabled porch addition has decorative, scrolled barge boards and is supported by tree trunk columns, which are painted. On the ground floor, there are windows flanking the door, while the attic has two canted tripartite dormers in the outer bays, each with piended roofs and a skylight in the center. The cottage has sash and case windows with a four-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with grey slates, featuring ashlar coped skews and stacks, with some decorative cans.
Local climate
Crossbrae 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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