Waddies Cottage, Drumblade, Huntly is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 August 2003. Cottage.

Waddies Cottage, Drumblade, Huntly

WRENN ID
spare-tallow-elm
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 August 2003
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NJ 621 378
Coordinates
57.42965, -2.63176
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Waddies Cottage is an early 19th-century single-storey, three-bay vernacular cottage featuring original openings. The exterior is finished with whitewash or thin render over a rubble base, and it has slate stone cills.

On the northwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, there is a boarded timber door at the center flanked by small, widely spaced, deep-set windows. The southwest elevation presents a plain gabled facade, while the southeast elevation has a tiny deep-set window located close to the eaves on the outer left. The northeast elevation is a blank gable, with possible evidence of a blocked window high up to the right.

The cottage features a four-pane glazing pattern in its timber casement windows. The roof is covered with corrugated iron over thatch, and there are coped brick gablehead stacks. Inside, the walls are lined with timber, and there is a fireplace.

Local climate

Waddies Cottage, Drumblade, Huntly receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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