Auchiries School is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Schoolhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Auchiries School

WRENN ID
wild-spandrel-sorrel
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 April 1971
Type
Schoolhouse
Address
Auchiries School, AB42 0PE
OS grid reference
NK 076 378
Coordinates
57.43096, -1.87357
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Auchiries School, built by J. & W. Smith in 1847-1848, is a single-storey schoolhouse with a dormerless attic. It is constructed of coursed red rubble with grey dressings and margins. The building features a two-window front and a central porch, which has an arched doorpiece with a keystone and consoles. There is also a single-storey wing at the back that houses the school room.

Local climate

Auchiries School receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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