Seaview Cottage, The Old School House, Johnshaven is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 October 1990.

Seaview Cottage, The Old School House, Johnshaven

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 October 1990
OS grid reference
NO 794 670
Coordinates
56.7946, -2.33793
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Seaview Cottage and The Old School House form a terrace consisting of a former school building, schoolhouse, and two cottages, constructed in two phases. The two two-storey, three-bay cottages at the eastern end likely date to around 1850. The school rooms and schoolhouse were built in 1854. The entire complex is single-storey, with the schoolhouse featuring two canted dormers leading to an attic space. The exterior is harled with long and short tooled dressings, and has slate roofs. Corniced stacks are present, with a more elaborate design at the western end. The schoolhouse has a central door flanked by bipartites (potentially inserted around 1870), along with a lower, matching lean-to at the western gable. The former school room projects centrally, featuring a door to its left. A finialled gabled projection is present, housing a multi-pane sash and case window on the ground floor and a smaller window in the gablehead. The former school windows have been replaced with modern four-pane glazing on Fernlea.

Local climate

Seaview Cottage, The Old School House, Johnshaven receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% 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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