Tillery House is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. 1 related planning application.

Tillery House

WRENN ID
waiting-casement-grain
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 April 1971
Address
Tillery House, AB41 6SE
OS grid reference
NJ 914 228
Coordinates
57.29637, -2.14269
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Tillery House was originally built in 1788 and significantly altered in the 1820s. The initial structure was a 2-storey, 3-window building which was later incorporated into a larger Greek Revival mansion designed by Archibald Simpson in 1826. The main house was destroyed by fire in 1939 and is now roofless, but the 2-storey office wing remains largely intact.

The main block of the house was approximately 45 feet by 60 feet. The west front features three windows and a single-storey, tetrastyle portico with unfluted Doric columns and a pediment. The south front has a three-window bow with a single window on either side. The east front has three windows. The exterior is harled, with a cornice and blocking course. The house's original plan was notable for its oval staircase.

The north side retains the lower, 2-storey office buildings, which have been partly altered in later times. Tillery House was built by Chambers, a retired planter from the southern states of the United States, who had changed his family name from Chalmers.

The remains of farm buildings, including work from the Simpson era, are present, though they have been altered. A symmetrical, half-storey dovecot feature has been retained on the farmstead.

Local climate

Tillery House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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