Milton is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 2000. Cottage.

Milton

WRENN ID
crooked-sandstone-khaki
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 2000
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NO 570 950
Coordinates
57.0449, -2.70931
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Milton is a mid-18th century single-storey and garret cottage with a rectangular plan and three bays, accompanied by an adjoining single-bay barn. The exterior is harled with a rubble base course.

The northwest elevation, which is the principal facade, is nearly symmetrical. It features a central doorway flanked by small windows on either side, and there are two 2-pane skylights symmetrically placed above for the garret. The barn is attached to the left, with a central doorway and two skylights, one with 2 panes and the other with 3 panes, also symmetrically arranged for the garret.

The southwest elevation is asymmetrical and gabled, with a single doorway located off-centre to the left on the ground floor.

The southeast elevation is nearly symmetrical, showcasing two window openings at the centre of the ground floor and three 3-pane skylights regularly placed for the cottage.

The northeast elevation is blank.

The cottage has 9-pane timber windows, although some panes are missing. The roof is made of purple-grey slate with a tiled ridge, but it is missing over the barn and the southwest section of the cottage. The stone skew stones feature simple skewputts. The gable head and ridge stack of the cottage are coped and harled. The rainwater goods are no longer in place.

Inside, the cottage has been converted to a barn and contains concrete feeding troughs.

Local climate

Milton sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 66 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 44 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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