Glencat is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 1980. Farmhouse.
Glencat
- WRENN ID
- salt-basalt-frost
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1980
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NO 540 933
- Coordinates
- 57.02863, -2.75838
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Glencat is a traditional farmhouse dated 1814, featuring two storeys and an attic with three bays. The exterior is harled with a rubble base course.
The southeast elevation is symmetrical, showcasing a glazed boarded timber door at the center of the ground floor, topped with a tooled lintel inscribed with "1814." There is a window in each flanking bay, and the first floor has regular fenestration with two skylights symmetrically placed in the attic.
The northeast elevation is gabled and near-symmetrical, with a blank wall featuring a metal vent at the center of the ground floor. There is a lean-to addition on the outer right side.
The northwest elevation is asymmetrical, with a window at the center of the ground floor and an off-centre window to the left above. A lean-to addition is attached to the left bay at ground floor, featuring a boarded timber door on the right return and a two-pane window above on the first floor. A gabled boarded timber addition projects from the right bay at ground floor, with a door on the left return and a corrugated roof.
The southwest elevation is gabled and blank.
The windows are predominantly four-pane timber sash and case. The roof is covered with graded grey slate and has a tiled ridge. Stone skews feature blocked skewputts, and there are coped gablehead stacks with circular cans. The property has cast-iron rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen in 1999.
Boundary walls made of dry granite rubble enclose the southeast side of the house, and there is a retaining wall to the northwest.
Local climate
Glencat sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 77 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 54 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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