5 King Street, Old Meldrum is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 September 1979. Cottage.

5 King Street, Old Meldrum

WRENN ID
other-gutter-lark
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 September 1979
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NJ 809 273
Coordinates
57.33604, -2.31854
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

5 King Street in Old Meldrum is an earlier 19th-century single-storey and attic cottage featuring five bays, although the two eastern bays are now roofless. The building is constructed from squared, pinned granite rubble. The western three bays include a central door flanked by windows, which have 12-pane sash designs. There are two later piended, canted dormers on the roof, along with end and ridge stacks. The cottage has a slate roof and a lean-to structure at the rear.

Local climate

5 King Street, Old Meldrum receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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