Esslemont House is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971.
Esslemont House
- WRENN ID
- heavy-flue-sunrise
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- OS grid reference
- NJ 932 304
- Coordinates
- 57.36443, -2.11426
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Esslemont House is a large, Baronial-style building of 1865, designed by J. Russell Mackenzie, incorporating fabric from a preceding house built in 1769 at its centre. The exterior is constructed of squared granite, with an asymmetrical design incorporating a four-storey crenellated tower to the south-east, topped with an ogee-capped bell turret. A distinctive semi-circular entrance feature is corbelled to a square base.
The interior is simple, although the staircase was reconstructed around 1958 by A.G.R. Mackenzie. Very little of the original 1769 house remains intact, with sections of masonry observable, primarily on the north front. This original section featured a design of two storeys and a basement, with five windows, a piend roof, substantial chimneys, and a central round-arched porch, as shown in a photograph held at the house.
References relating to the construction and the building itself are documented in contracts published in the Aberdeen Journal in May 1865, in Godsman's 'Ellon', page 109, and in the New Statistical Account, volume XII, page 905.
Local climate
Esslemont House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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