Oldwood Cottage, Fyvie Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971.
Oldwood Cottage, Fyvie Castle
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-cobble-evening
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- OS grid reference
- NJ 769 391
- Coordinates
- 57.44199, -2.3853
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Oldwood Cottage, located within Fyvie Castle, was built for Belle Black, who later became Lady Gordon, and died in 1824. It is a two-storey, three-window house with a harled exterior and margins around the windows. The door has a hoodmould, and the first floor windows are similarly treated. A heavy crenellated parapet sits on a corbelled course, with crowstepped gables and tall, shafted chimneys. According to local accounts, the house may have been begun by General William Gordon before his marriage, though the building’s current form dates to a later period. The address is Oldwood Cottage, Fyvie Castle.
Local climate
Oldwood Cottage, Fyvie Castle 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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