Foresters Cottage, Delgatie Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 December 1974. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Foresters Cottage, Delgatie Castle

WRENN ID
weathered-obsidian-bone
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 December 1974
Type
Cottage
Address
Foresters Cottage, Delgatie Castle, AB53 5TD
OS grid reference
NJ 754 506
Coordinates
57.54502, -2.41106
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Foresters Cottage, built around 1800 in a Gothic style, is a two-storey building with three windows and a harled exterior featuring margins. The eastern face has ogee-arched windows on the ground floor, a square-headed door beneath a depressed ogee arch, and a Gothic "Venetian" window above. The roof has been re-covered with asbestos.

Local climate

Foresters Cottage, Delgatie 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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