House Now Pigsty, Milton Of Auchinhove is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 1980.

House Now Pigsty, Milton Of Auchinhove

WRENN ID: far-pewter-grain
Grade: C
Local Planning Authority: Aberdeenshire
Constituency: West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country: Scotland
Date first listed: 25 November 1980
OS grid reference: NJ 553 036
Coordinates: 57.1214, -2.7391
Source: Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is an early 18th century house, originally a single-storey, two-window-wide building with a central door. The walls are harled and have chamfered margins. It features coped chimneys and rudimentary skewputs. A later L-shaped wing was added to the rear. The building is located at Milton of Auchinhove and is currently used as a pigsty.

Local climate

House Now Pigsty, Milton Of Auchinhove receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 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.

House Now Pigsty, Milton Of Auchinhove

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