21 Low Shore, Whitehills is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Cottage.
21 Low Shore, Whitehills
- WRENN ID
- tenth-mullion-blackthorn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1972
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 21 Low Shore, Whitehills, AB45 2NN
- OS grid reference
- NJ 653 654
- Coordinates
- 57.67748, -2.58257
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
21 Low Shore in Whitehills is a mid-19th century cottage featuring a single storey and a dormerless attic, designed with three bays. The front is constructed from rubble with contrasting painted joints, while the flanks are harled with painted margins. The central entrance includes a panelled door, a narrow fanlight, and simple pilastered door jambs. There is a small ground floor and attic window on the seaward (north) gable, both with 2-pane glazing. The cottage has coped end stacks and a slate roof that includes loft roof lights. Additionally, there is a small single storey extension at the south gable, which has a felt roof.
Local climate
21 Low Shore, Whitehills sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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