Dess House is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 1980. 3 related planning applications.
Dess House
- WRENN ID
- hushed-turret-dew
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1980
- Address
- Dess House, AB34 5BA
- OS grid reference
- NJ 574 000
- Coordinates
- 57.08981, -2.70355
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dess House is a building of considerable merit, dating from 1851 and designed by Thomas Mackenzie of Mackenzie & Matthews. It represents a fragment of a larger baronial mansion house, with the main portion being demolished in 1956. The building is three storeys high with dormer windows at the second-floor level, and incorporates a four-storey crenellated tower and a two-storey wing containing dormer windows at the first-floor level, along with an angle turret. The walls are harled, with granite dressings. A west-facing loggia, constructed from bullfaced granite, was added in the 1890s based on designs by W R Davidson of Dess, who was practising in London at the time. Group value is present.
Local climate
Dess House receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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