Temple Of Venus, Macduff is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 May 1990. Temple.

Temple Of Venus, Macduff

WRENN ID
veiled-spire-elm
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 May 1990
Type
Temple
OS grid reference
NJ 697 637
Coordinates
57.66286, -2.50843
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Temple of Venus in Macduff is a building designed by William Adam in 1737 and later. It is a belvedere shaped like a domed rotunda with arcades. The exterior features modern harl with ashlar margins and dressings. There are six round-headed keystoned arches that rise from a continuous plinth to create the arcade. A bandcourse runs at the impost level, and another bandcourse along with a cornice is present at the top of the walls. The roof is a domed structure made of harled rubble and is topped with a renewed square facetted sandstone finial, which is crowned by a small ball finial.

Local climate

Temple Of Venus, Macduff receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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