Steading, Forebank House is a Grade A listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 June 1972.
Steading, Forebank House
- WRENN ID
- worn-timber-tarn
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1972
- OS grid reference
- NO 700 647
- Coordinates
- 56.77328, -2.4911
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Forebank is a two-storey, five-bay classical dower house dated 1757, featuring a basement and attics. The exterior is made of white-washed rubble with painted margins. It has a lugged ashlar architraved doorpiece that includes a cornice and a radial fanlight. The spacing between the outer pairs of windows is slightly wider than the others. The deep gable ends are harled and include an oval window on the first floor that lights a central spinal corridor, along with twin oeil-de-boeuf attic windows. The back of the house has irregular fenestration, with two central stair windows, two windows to the left, and one window to the right, which has a blind first floor.
Inside, the property is largely unaltered and retains fine timber panelling that likely dates to the 18th century.
There is also an extensive range of simple rubble-built, single-storey and loft steading buildings, featuring straight skews and moulded skew ends at the older sections, all slated.
A front garden wall with ball-capped gatepiers frames the approach to the front garden.
Local climate
Steading, Forebank 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 greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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