Gardener's Cottage, Rickarton House is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 1980.
Gardener's Cottage, Rickarton House
- WRENN ID
- grim-transept-rye
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1980
- OS grid reference
- NO 837 885
- Coordinates
- 56.98791, -2.26912
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Gardener's Cottage at Rickarton House dates to around 1840. It is a single-storey structure with an attic, built of rubble and finished with a whitewash. The cottage features two windows with Gothic arches and a central doorway, sheltered by a rustic timber porch. Brick chimneys are visible, and the roof is covered in slate.
Local climate
Gardener's Cottage, Rickarton House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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