Auchmacoy is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971.
Auchmacoy
- WRENN ID
- rough-chalk-myrtle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- OS grid reference
- NJ 992 308
- Coordinates
- 57.36796, -2.01454
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Auchmacoy is a large house designed in 1831 by William Burn for James Buchan. It is built in the Scots Elizabethan style and is constructed of harled walls with granite dressings, featuring prominent shafted chimneys. The south front is symmetrical, with a projecting central bay featuring a gable and a bay window. It has two storeys with mullioned windows of three lights each side, topped with smaller gables. The east front, which serves as the main entrance, is asymmetrical, incorporating a south bay window, a porch with a Tudor doorpiece and shaped gable, a circular conical roofed tower, and a lower north wing. A private family wing extends from the northeast.
The interior has a simple neo-Greek style, with some noteworthy chimney pieces, some of which may have been salvaged from a previous house.
A Tudor style mausoleum was constructed within the grounds in 1866 for Thomas Buchan. It is built of stugged ashlar with a diagonally buttressed, gabled porch on the west flank.
Historical sources suggest the construction may have been contracted by John Smith, father of William Smith, and records show that sources such as the Buchan Field Club and Pratt’s Buchan discuss the building.
Local climate
Auchmacoy receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% 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 0.2°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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