Clova is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971.
Clova
- WRENN ID
- white-stair-storm
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- OS grid reference
- NJ 455 223
- Coordinates
- 57.28889, -2.90496
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Clova is a large house with a complex history, dating back to the mid-18th century. The original core of the house was built around 1760 as a three-story, four-window building, with a projecting central two-window section featuring a gabled roof. The exterior is harled, with quoins outlining the corners, and the roof has a noticeable bell-cast profile. A prominent, ornamented doorway with a pediment and the date 1760 is centrally located.
The interior was largely remodelled following a fire around 1810, although the original stone staircase with an open wall remains. A substantial southern wing was added circa 1850 at a right angle to this original form. This wing is two stories high with a basement, and also features four windows, with the central two windows projecting and gabled, and a four-column Roman Doric porch. This wing incorporates a single room from the early 19th century on its eastern side. Like the original part, it is harled with margins. A less substantial addition was made to the northeast around 1880.
Local climate
Clova 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 74 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 57 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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