Racquets Court, Fyvie Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1993. Squash court. 3 related planning applications.
Racquets Court, Fyvie Castle
- WRENN ID
- crooked-gutter-flax
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1993
- Type
- Squash court
- Address
- Racquets Court, Fyvie Castle, AB53 8JS
- OS grid reference
- NJ 763 392
- Coordinates
- 57.4433, -2.39616
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Racquets Court at Fyvie Castle was built in 1903 for Alexander Forbes Leith. This covered, detached squash court building is designed in a vigorous crenellated and bartizaned neo-Baronial style. The exterior is harled with red sandstone dressings and features finely carved inset heraldic panels made of Italian marble and sandstone. On the south gable, there is a carved Italian marble fountain basin set into a blind gothic window with white marble cusped tracery. The building has a grazed pitched roof and clerestory windows. Additionally, there is a lean-to along the west wall that contains a bowling alley with a concrete floor and timber ditches.
Local climate
Racquets Court, Fyvie Castle 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 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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