Hatton Castle is a Grade A listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 November 1972. Castle.

Hatton Castle

WRENN ID
keen-footing-hawk
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 November 1972
Type
Castle
OS grid reference
NJ 757 469
Coordinates
57.5123, -2.40703
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Hatton Castle is a castellated mansion house built in its current form in 1814. It has a square plan with round angle towers, one-third of which is part of the old Castle of Balquholly. The entrance front is three stories high with five windows, while the other frontages have four windows. The entrance features a Langley type gothic doorpiece with shafted columns and a battlemented parapet, and the towers are slightly taller with corbelled parapets. There is a low central crenellated tower. The exterior is made of red rubble and is thinly harled.

The interior, which mainly dates from 1814, includes a simple classical style with a grand central staircase and apse-ended dining and drawing rooms. The entrance hall has been altered recently by Turnbull of Turriff, and there were other alterations made to the upper floors by W Duncan of Turriff in 1901.

Local climate

Hatton Castle receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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