Orrock House is a Grade A listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. House.
Orrock House
- WRENN ID
- inner-jamb-saffron
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NJ 963 195
- Coordinates
- 57.2667, -2.06147
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Orrock House is a building dating from 1781 to 1782. It features a three-storey main block with gabled roofs and single-storey wings that have piend roofs, all of the same depth. The south front is made of dressed granite and has five windows (with one blind at the ground floor and two at the second floor), along with one door that has a rectangular fanlight and one window in each wing. The north front has three windows (with the west windows being blind) and one window in the wing. The ground floor is harled, while the second and third floors are of dressed granite. There is a tripartite doorpiece with a semi-elliptical traceried fanlight, and semi-circular headed openings are present in the east wall of the east wing and at the attic in the gables. The interior is simply treated and retains original woodwork, including a plain railed stair and a good chimneypiece on the first floor. There is a modern garage entrance in the west wing and a modern porch in the east wing.
Local climate
Orrock House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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