Castle Of Fiddes is a Grade A listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 July 1962. 1 related planning application.

Castle Of Fiddes

WRENN ID
tattered-paling-willow
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 July 1962
Address
Castle Of Fiddes, AB39 2XX
OS grid reference
NO 824 812
Coordinates
56.92253, -2.2903
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Castle of Fiddes is a four-storey L-plan tower house constructed in 1592. It includes a vaulted basement, projecting stair towers, and angle turrets. The castle was modernised around 1930. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument under the care of the Ministry of Works. Details, including illustrations and plans, are available in C & D Arch II, page 142.

Local climate

Castle Of Fiddes receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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