Game Larder, Castle Forbes is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971.
Game Larder, Castle Forbes
- WRENN ID
- twisted-forge-weasel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- OS grid reference
- NJ 622 191
- Coordinates
- 57.2614, -2.62799
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Game Larder, circa 1815-20, is a single-storey building constructed of squared granite. It has a crowstepped Y-plan design, featuring a two-storey central rotunda with battlements and a quadrant colonnade of Balty Langley pattern. The listing record indicates that the larder buildings are located at the rear of Castle Forbes.
Local climate
Game Larder, Castle Forbes receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% 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 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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