Buchanness Cottage, Boddam is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Buchanness Cottage, Boddam
- WRENN ID
- hidden-gravel-nightshade
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Buchanness Cottage, Boddam, AB42 3AT
- OS grid reference
- NK 133 419
- Coordinates
- 57.46734, -1.77984
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Buchanness Cottage, built in 1840 by John Smith as Buchanness Lodge for Lord Aberdeen, is a simple classic marine villa made of granite ashlar. The south front features a two-storey, three-window layout, with a central section that projects forward, showcasing a doorpiece with a consoled and block pediment inscribed with "PROCVL NEGOTIIS BEATVS." The design is asymmetrical, with a west wing that is set back and includes a single-storey flat-roofed section, although the windows in this section have been remodelled. The east front, which faces the sea, is also asymmetrical, featuring a canted bay on the south side and a later bay window on the north side. The building has a low-pitched, broad-eaved roof and displays good cast-iron work at the clifftop terraces.
Local climate
Buchanness Cottage, Boddam receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 2 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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