Kitchen Wing, Culvie House is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972.
Kitchen Wing, Culvie House
- WRENN ID
- odd-cloister-evening
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1972
- OS grid reference
- NJ 591 536
- Coordinates
- 57.57142, -2.68485
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Walled Garden at Culvie House is a 17th century structure with later additions. It features a two-storey and attic farmhouse with four irregular bays, likely incorporating an earlier house. The exterior is harled with ashlar margins that are droved to the front, and it has chamfered reveals on the sides and rear.
On the south elevation, there is a four-panelled door in a roll-moulded surround at the center. The windows were enlarged in the 19th century, with two windows flanking the door on the left at both the ground and first floors, and one window on each floor to the right. There is a piended, canted bay at the ground level on the outer right.
To the west, there is a single-storey kitchen wing, which may also incorporate parts of the earlier house. The east elevation has two windows at the first floor and two small windows in the attic. The north elevation features a wallhead stack at the center and a window on each floor to the left. There is a single-storey service wing adjoining at right angles to the right, with an addition extending west to form a small courtyard at the rear. The windows are sash and case, predominantly with a 12-pane glazing pattern. The steeply pitched roof is covered with grey slates, and it has ashlar coped skews with beak skewputts, possibly replacing crowsteps. The rendered stacks are corniced and coped.
Inside, there are some 18th century plasterwork cornices, and a large room on the first floor features a coombed plasterwork ceiling.
To the west of the farmhouse is a mid-19th century steading, which includes an L-plan range with a cartshed and granary, as well as a dovecot and piend-roofed cattle courts.
The walled garden, dating from the 18th century, is constructed of squared and pinned rubble with turf coping and measures approximately 70 meters by 25 meters, with rounded corners to the south. It includes an octagonal, slated summerhouse on the south wall and features 18th century wrought-iron gates.
Local climate
Kitchen Wing, Culvie House receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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