Gavenwood is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 March 1994. Factor's house. 1 related planning application.

Gavenwood

WRENN ID
upper-loggia-brook
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 March 1994
Type
Factor's house
Address
Gavenwood, AB45 3LA
OS grid reference
NJ 700 630
Coordinates
57.65624, -2.50287
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Gavenwood is a two-storey house with a basement, built in 1859 and extended in 1872, serving as a factor's house for the Fife Estate. The building is constructed from squared and coursed whinstone, featuring contrasting cream sandstone ashlar dressings, including a base course, a cill course at the first floor, and an eaves course. The windows have stone mullions and are arranged in bipartite configurations.

On the west elevation, there is a central gabled bay that is advanced, featuring a round-arched doorway flanked by pilasters and a deep-set keystone. The door has a strip fanlight above it, and there is a window above on the first floor, along with windows on both the ground and first floors in the flanking bays. To the outer right, a one-bay wing is recessed, with a window on each floor.

The north elevation has three bays, with bipartite windows at the centre and full-height canted windows on either side. The south elevation features a gabled wing on the left, with a window on each floor and a blind quatrefoil at the gablehead. There are also windows on each floor of the return and a window in the basement.

At the rear, two wings project and are enclosed by high walls forming a service court. The building has sash and case windows, mostly with a four-pane glazing pattern, and some with lying-pane glazing on the north gable. The roof is covered with grey slates and has a piended design with overhanging eaves. Corniced ashlar stacks with divided flues and decorative cans are present.

The gatepiers to the west consist of a pair of square ashlar piers capped with pyramidal tops, although the gates are missing.

Local climate

Gavenwood receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% 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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