Old Schoolhouse, St Tarquin's Place, Fordyce is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 May 1990. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Old Schoolhouse, St Tarquin's Place, Fordyce
- WRENN ID
- turning-transept-sable
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Schoolhouse, St Tarquin's Place, Fordyce, AB45 2SJ
- OS grid reference
- NJ 555 636
- Coordinates
- 57.66069, -2.74722
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Schoolhouse at St Tarquin's Place in Fordyce is a cottage built between 1830 and 1840. It is a single storey with an attic and features three bays, with a harled exterior. The front has a central doorway flanked by windows that include a central mullion and lying-pane glazing. At the rear, there are two later piended dormers. A single bay extension at the back connects to the house, creating a T-plan layout. The windows have multi-pane glazing, and the building has end stacks with slate roofs that have projecting eaves.
Local climate
Old Schoolhouse, St Tarquin's Place, Fordyce sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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 — 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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