Dead House, Saint Mary's Chapel, Cowie is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 1972.

Dead House, Saint Mary's Chapel, Cowie

WRENN ID
fading-transept-briar
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 August 1972
OS grid reference
NO 884 873
Coordinates
56.97687, -2.19223
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Dead House, Saint Mary’s Chapel, Cowie is a vaulted, oblong structure built around 1830. It is constructed of ashlar and has a turf-covered, partially subterranean design. Additional details are recorded in NSA XI 264.

Local climate

Dead House, Saint Mary's Chapel, Cowie receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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