The Kennels Cottage, Pitfour House Estate is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Cottage.

The Kennels Cottage, Pitfour House Estate

WRENN ID
graven-footing-plover
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
OS grid reference
NJ 974 490
Coordinates
57.5314, -2.045
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Kennels Cottage, located on the Pitfour House Estate, is a single-storey building that dates from before 1820. It features two windows and a central Doric portico with columns set in antis. The structure is constructed from rubble with granite dressings.

Local climate

The Kennels Cottage, Pitfour House Estate receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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