Friends' Cottage, Kinmuch is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 November 1972.
Friends' Cottage, Kinmuch
- WRENN ID
- final-span-crow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1972
- OS grid reference
- NJ 815 198
- Coordinates
- 57.26922, -2.30697
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building comprises a 17th-century Meeting House and a cottage, located at Kinmuch, and ceased to be used as a Meeting House of the Society of Friends approximately twenty years ago. The Meeting House is a rectangular building constructed with spur stones and skews. Mounting steps are situated on the boundary wall, leading to a gateway. The cottage is single-storey, with harled walls and a slated roof, and incorporates a wing on the north side.
Local climate
Friends' Cottage, Kinmuch 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 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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