Walled Garden And Bell-Cote, Kemnay House is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971.
Walled Garden And Bell-Cote, Kemnay House
- WRENN ID
- third-grate-finch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- OS grid reference
- NJ 733 155
- Coordinates
- 57.23006, -2.44372
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The site includes a walled garden and a bellcote, dated 1632 and relocated around 1860. The bellcote, originally part of the Old Kirk in Kemnay, is constructed from granite ashlar and sandstone, now set upon a modern base. It has roll-moulded openings and shafted angles, with semicircular pediments on each face. These pediments are decorated with baluster finials at the corners, thistle finials at the apexes, and a ball finial in the centre. A measured drawing by J Scott Lawson confirms the bellcote’s removal from the Old Kirk and subsequent relocation to the garden of Kemnay House around 1860.
Local climate
Walled Garden And Bell-Cote, Kemnay House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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