Golf Professional's Shop And Starting Box, Aulton Road, Cruden Bay is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 October 1997. Pavilion.
Golf Professional's Shop And Starting Box, Aulton Road, Cruden Bay
- WRENN ID
- south-rafter-crag
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1997
- Type
- Pavilion
- OS grid reference
- NK 083 358
- Coordinates
- 57.41303, -1.86311
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Golf Professional's Shop and Starting Box, located on Aulton Road in Cruden Bay, was built in 1899. This single-storey, rectangular pavilion overlooks the links golf course and features painted, rough-hewn timber on the southeast and southwest sides. It has broad overhanging eaves supported by braced timber columns that create a veranda. The dado is decorated with herringbone-pattern timber panels, while vertically arranged timber is above. The entrance consists of two-leaf panelled timber and glazed doors with geometric fanlights.
On the southeast elevation, the doorway is off-centre to the left and is flanked by windows. To the right, there are tripartite windows with timber mullions, and a broad opening to the left has plain two-leaf doors along with a continuous timber bench. The southwest elevation features a boarded timber door flanked by a single fixed four-pane window, and a bipartite window with timber mullions and transoms on the outer right, enclosing the veranda, which has coloured glazing in the upper panes. There is a lean-to set back to the left.
The northwest elevation includes a lean-to with a door on the right. The northeast elevation has a doorway flanked by windows and an additional window to the right. A lean-to with a blinded single window is advanced to the outer right, along with a panelled timber door on the return.
The windows predominantly feature geometric patterns in the upper sashes, with four-pane lower sashes in timber frames, and six-pane glazing in the lean-to. The roof is red tiled with a piended design, although the northeast pitch and lean-to have replacement slates. Decorative terracotta ridging and finials adorn the roof.
Inside, as seen in 2013, the layout remains largely unaltered. There are two principal rooms lined with vertically boarded timber, a timber cill course, and timber roof trusses with sarking. A store room is located to the southwest, and toilet facilities are found in the lean-to section.
Local climate
Golf Professional's Shop And Starting Box, Aulton Road, Cruden Bay receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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