Braehead is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 February 1986. Farmhouse, steading. 7 related planning applications.
Braehead
- WRENN ID
- solitary-window-elder
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse, steading
- Address
- Braehead, AB51 7JB
- OS grid reference
- NJ 682 176
- Coordinates
- 57.24813, -2.52792
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Braehead is a farmhouse built around 1830, featuring three bays and a single storey with a basement and attic. The exterior is harled with granite margins at the angles and openings. The front has a central door flanked by windows, all with block cornices on brackets and a 12-pane glazing pattern. There are also two canted dormers on the front, straight skews, ashlar end stacks, and a slate roof.
At the rear, there is a large U-plan steading from the same period, constructed of coursed rubble with slated roofs on the long ranges, although part of the cross range has been re-roofed in asbestos.
To the east, there is a detached single storey range designed in a Tudor estate style, similar to the buildings in Monymusk Village Square. This range features a steep pitched roof with irregularly spaced gables on the front, hipped at the east end, and a gable on the west that has been altered to create a large opening with the roof raised to meet the gable.
Local climate
Braehead receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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