Library Cottage, Monymusk is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 September 1984. Cottage.

Library Cottage, Monymusk

WRENN ID
endless-threshold-larch
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 September 1984
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NJ 683 151
Coordinates
57.22622, -2.52516
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Library Cottage in Monymusk is a mid-19th century building that serves as both a library room and a librarian's cottage. It has a single-storey layout and is constructed from rubble, featuring a two-bay cottage with a gabled dormer. Attached to the southeast is the library room, which has a shallow projection on the main front. The library room includes a three-light window set beneath a jerkin-headed gable, while the eastern side has a low piended entrance bay. The roof is covered with slate and has simply coped stacks.

Local climate

Library Cottage, Monymusk 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 lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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