79 High Street, New Pitsligo is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. School, house. 1 related planning application.

79 High Street, New Pitsligo

WRENN ID
watchful-pewter-cedar
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
School, house
Address
79 High Street, New Pitsligo, AB43 6NH
OS grid reference
NJ 883 556
Coordinates
57.59106, -2.19649
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

79 High Street in New Pitsligo is a building dated 1803, as indicated by the date on the porch at the north gable. Originally serving as a Dame School, it later became a volunteer armoury. The structure is a single-storey and attic house with two windows and a central door, built from squared granite. It features coped chimneys, lacks skews, and has two canted dormers. Attached to the main building is a lower, three-window, single-storey school wing, which is now a shop, and a two-window piended northwest wing that is positioned at right angles to the main structure.

Local climate

79 High Street, New Pitsligo receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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 0.3°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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