Craigievar Castle is a Grade A listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. 12 related planning applications.
Craigievar Castle
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-quartz-honey
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- Address
- Craigievar Castle, AB33 8JF
- OS grid reference
- NJ 566 094
- Coordinates
- 57.17414, -2.71812
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Craigievar Castle is a five-to-seven-storey tower house of stepped L-plan design, begun by the Mortimers in the early 17th century and completed by William Forbes in 1626. The upper parts of the castle feature elaborate detailing, including two-storey angle turrets. The re-entrant tower is corbelled, and the east tower has balustraded flat roofs with ogee capped stair turrets. The exterior is harled.
The ground floor is vaulted. The first-floor hall has a groin vault with plaster surface decoration and original screens passage. Moulded plaster ceilings are present almost throughout the castle. The west wall of the barmkin remains, with remnants of a brewhouse at the north end and a conical-roofed tower at the south end.
The castle was re-roofed in 1826, when repairs were carried out by John Smith of Aberdeen. These repairs included alterations and raising of the towers, as well as a new entrance door, which has subsequently been restored.
Local climate
Craigievar Castle receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 66 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 45 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 12 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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