Rhu-Na-Haven Lodge, Rhu-Na-Haven Road, Aboyne is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 2000. Lodge.

Rhu-Na-Haven Lodge, Rhu-Na-Haven Road, Aboyne

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 2000
Type
Lodge
Address
Rhu-Na-Haven Lodge, Rhu-Na-Haven Road, Aboyne, AB34 5JD
OS grid reference
NO 515 978
Coordinates
57.0687, -2.80112
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Rhu-Na-Haven Lodge, designed by Sir Robert Lorimer around 1911, is a single-storey, three-bay lodge with a square plan. It is constructed from tooled coursed granite with finely finished raised margins and features rounded reveals and an eaves course.

The southeast elevation is nearly symmetrical, featuring a two-leaf boarded timber door with a square glazed panel in the center, accessed by a single step. To the left, there is a tripartite window, and to the right, a bipartite window. The northeast elevation is blank. The northwest elevation is asymmetrical, with a window in the center flanked by a bipartite window on the left. There is a flat-roofed addition that projects from the right bay, which includes a central stack, a boarded timber door, and a window on the left return, while the right return is blank. The southwest elevation is also asymmetrical, with a window located off-center to the left.

The lodge features predominantly small-pane timber casement windows and a swept pyramidal slate roof. A coped, tooled granite stack breaks the pitch to the southeast and has circular cans.

The interior was not seen in 1999.

The property includes decorative ironwork gates to the southeast, which are flanked by two circular-plan granite gatepiers topped with conical pebbled caps and oval finials. Convex quadrant walls made of coursed tooled granite flank the gates on both sides, featuring semi-circular pebbled coping and circular-plan terminations, also capped with conical pebbled caps and oval finials.

Local climate

Rhu-Na-Haven Lodge, Rhu-Na-Haven Road, Aboyne sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 73 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 51 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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