Walled Garden And Gardener's Cottage, Blairs College is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 December 1992. Garden, cottage.
Walled Garden And Gardener's Cottage, Blairs College
- WRENN ID
- open-ledge-holly
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1992
- Type
- Garden, cottage
- OS grid reference
- NJ 882 007
- Coordinates
- 57.09736, -2.19603
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The walled garden and gardener's cottage at Blairs College date back to 1827. The garden was rebuilt and relocated when the new college was constructed over its original site around 1898. It features granite rubble that is partially lined with brick. A delicate wrought-iron gate is located in the west wall, and there is a heated peach wall on the north side that includes beeboles.
The gardener's cottage is situated at the southwest corner. It is a single-storey, three-bay structure built from granite and topped with a slate roof.
Local climate
Walled Garden And Gardener's Cottage, Blairs College receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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