Fetteresso Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 August 1987. 5 related planning applications.
Fetteresso Castle
- WRENN ID
- pitched-marble-sparrow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1987
- Address
- Fetteresso Castle, AB39 3UR
- OS grid reference
- NO 842 854
- Coordinates
- 56.96036, -2.26036
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Fetteresso Castle is a substantial, three-storey mansion house of 1808, built by John Paterson. It incorporates elements of a castle rebuilt in 1671, though the mansion was dismantled in 1954 and now exists as a roofless ruin. The building presents a picturesque appearance with numerous towers and turrets, and battlements. It is constructed of roughly squared rubble with polished ashlar dressings, arranged in a roughly L-shaped plan with a service court in the re-entrant angle. A large, octagonal entrance tower is located at the east side, featuring a projecting, buttressed porch and a pointed arched entrance. Various intermediate turrets are located along the long elevations, some enclosing staircases. The windows vary, some are hood-moulded, and some are bipartite. String courses run along the wallhead, continuing across the towers, and are topped by battlements. Ranges connect the angle tower to the first tower on the north and south sides. Illustrations detailing the castle’s appearance prior to its dismantlement in 1954 exist, and a plan is held by the Scottish National Monuments Record.
Local climate
Fetteresso Castle receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% 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 0.3°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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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