North Gellan is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 2003. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
North Gellan
- WRENN ID
- distant-dormer-saffron
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 2003
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- North Gellan, AB34 4YR
- OS grid reference
- NJ 497 026
- Coordinates
- 57.11222, -2.83113
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
North Gellan is a mid-19th century, single-storey farmhouse with a rectangular plan and three bays. It features squared red granite courses and has a symmetrical main elevation with a central door flanked by rectangular windows. To the right, there is a two-bay addition that includes an additional door. The rear of the house has irregular fenestration and a gabled roof dormer at the center. The gable ends are blank, and there is a single-storey, stone-built lean-to outhouse attached to the west gable end. The building has modern fixed pane glazing with top hoppers, grey slate roofing with lead flashing, and coped skews with gable stacks.
Inside, there is a central lobby with a staircase at the rear and rooms on either side. The left gable end wall features a large inglenook fireplace, which includes a substantial single slab lintel stone and a mantelpiece supported by large curved stone corbels. The fireplace area also has a wall to the right that contains stone salt boxes. An original cast-iron swey is attached to the rear of the fireplace, and there is a modern cast-iron stove in the center with a stovepipe leading up the stone flue.
Local climate
North Gellan sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 73 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 51 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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