Farmhouse, Pitmachie Farm is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 November 1972.

Farmhouse, Pitmachie Farm

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 November 1972
OS grid reference
NJ 671 282
Coordinates
57.34328, -2.54776
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The stables at Pitmachie Farm, originally part of the farmhouse that served as an inn, date from around 1710. This two-storey building features three windows and a central door, constructed from squared granite with skewputts and coped chimneys. Attached to the west is a single-storey annexe with a piended roof, built around 1806, also made of squared granite. The annexe has one window and door to the south and two windows to the west. The door includes a well-preserved asuragal fanlight. Both buildings are believed to have "cherry-cock" pointed features, some of which remain on the west wall of the annexe. There is a single-storey rear wing attached to the main part.

The stables are located to the east of the farmhouse. They are tall, consisting of two storeys and a loft, built from granite rubble with brush-pointed dressed margins and skewputts. The stables have a slated-roof lean-to on the north gable and a slated-roof lean-to coach house on the east wall, designed for three coaches. The original entry was on the east side, but this was later walled up, and a new entry was created on the south gable for farm use. The stables were originally designed to accommodate fourteen horses, with a chaumer above, but the upper floor has since been removed, along with the hay loft floor.

Local climate

Farmhouse, Pitmachie Farm 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 lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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