Fern Ler, The Old Schoolhouse, Johnshaven is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 October 1990.
Fern Ler, The Old Schoolhouse, Johnshaven
- WRENN ID
- lost-buttress-myrtle
- 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
- 56.79471, -2.33771
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a terrace of buildings comprising a former school room, school house, 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 school house were built in 1854.
The buildings are harled, with contrasting long and short dressed stone detailing and slate roofs. Chimneys are corniced, with a more elaborate design at the western end. The schoolhouse has two canted dormers to the attic space. The westernmost building, the school house, has a central door and flanking bipartites, which may have been inserted around 1870. A lower, contemporary lean-to has been added to the western gable.
The former school room projects centrally within the terrace. It features a door on the left side and a gabled projection with a multi-pane sash and case window at ground level, as well as a smaller window in the gablehead. Modern four-pane glazing is present at Fernlea.
Local climate
Fern Ler, The Old Schoolhouse, 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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