The Cottage, Muchalls Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 June 1994. Cottage.
The Cottage, Muchalls Castle
- WRENN ID
- ancient-rafter-elm
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1994
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NO 891 918
- Coordinates
- 57.01732, -2.18103
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Cottage at Muchalls Castle is a single-storey T-plan cottage built in the late 19th century. It features roughcast walls with sandstone dressings and crowsteps, and the quoins are cement over sandstone.
On the north elevation, there is a doorway located in the re-entrant angle, along with a segmental-arched single window in the advanced wing to the outer right. The west elevation has three single windows. The east elevation includes an advanced gabled wing to the outer left, which has two single windows. The south elevation features a single window to the outer right and two segmental-arched windows in the advanced wing to the outer left. The windows are 4-pane sash and case style. The roof is made of grey slate and includes coped gablehead stacks, yellow fireclay ridging, crowstepped gables, and beaked skewputts.
The interior was not seen in 1994.
Local climate
The Cottage, Muchalls Castle receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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