House Of Leask is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 May 1989. Mansion house.
House Of Leask
- WRENN ID
- vacant-rampart-autumn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1989
- Type
- Mansion house
- OS grid reference
- NK 026 330
- Coordinates
- 57.388, -1.9578
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The House of Leask is a 2-storey mansion designed by Archibald Simpson between 1826 and 1827. It consists of a main block and a lower service wing. The building was burnt in 1927 and became a roofless ruin by 1989. It is constructed of granite rubble, which was formerly harled, with a finely dressed base and string courses, and rendered dressings around the windows.
On the south elevation, the main frontage features five bays, including a central door flanked by tall windows, and five smaller windows on the first floor. To the right, a wide recessed lower bay connects to the two-bay gable end of the service wing. The west elevation includes a prominent 2-storey bow with three windows and two flanking windows. The east elevation has canted angles on the main block and is windowless, while the east front of the service wing is wide with two bays. The north elevation shows three bays on the west side of the main block, which steps back to the left of center to the stair, although all of this is now gone, along with the west-facing front of the service wing.
Originally, the house featured deep eaves beneath a piended slate roof.
Local climate
House Of Leask 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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