Former Laundry, North East Folklore Archive, Aden Country Park is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 July 2007. Former laundry.
Former Laundry, North East Folklore Archive, Aden Country Park
- WRENN ID
- former-beam-mallow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 July 2007
- Type
- Former laundry
- OS grid reference
- NJ 980 478
- Coordinates
- 57.52117, -2.03371
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The former laundry, now the North East Folklore Archive, is possibly from the late 18th century and was converted for its current use in 1995 by architect Leslie Hunter of Cullen. This early traditional building is two stories high, has three bays, and a rectangular plan. It is located between the now-ruinous Aden House and its semicircular steading. The structure retains its original openings, featuring small horizontal windows on the first floor, and is harled with stone margins. The base course is made of irregular rubble, with narrow granite margins and quoin strips.
The symmetrical principal elevation faces south and includes a central door with a later simple lean-to porch canopy. There are windows in the flanking bays and regular fenestration near the eaves on the first floor. The windows are timber sash and case with 6- and 12-pane glazing patterns. The roof is covered with grey slate and includes small cast iron rooflights. The gablehead stacks are harled and have polygonal cans, while the skews are ashlar-coped.
Local climate
Former Laundry, North East Folklore Archive, Aden Country Park receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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