Cottage, Castle Lane, Fordyce Village is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972.

Cottage, Castle Lane, Fordyce Village

WRENN ID
carved-grate-solstice
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 February 1972
Address
Cottage, Castle Lane, Fordyce Village, AB45 2SF
OS grid reference
NJ 555 637
Coordinates
57.66139, -2.74609
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building is a row of single-storey cottages located on Castle Lane in Fordyce Village, dating from around 1800. The row consists of three cottages, each with three bays. A large garage entrance is positioned on the south gable of the range. The cottages are constructed of rubble with tooled rubble dressings. They feature plank doors and 9-pane sash windows. The roofs are covered with slate and include ridge and end stacks.

Local climate

Cottage, Castle Lane, Fordyce Village sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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