Ravenswood, New Road, Forfar is a Grade C listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 January 1980. House.
Ravenswood, New Road, Forfar
- WRENN ID
- open-grate-azure
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1980
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NO 455 503
- Coordinates
- 56.64206, -2.88972
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ravenswood, located on New Road in Forfar, was built around 1823 and is designed in the style of David Neave. This two-storey building with a basement features a three-window main block and a one-window wing that is set back to the east. The front is made of ashlar stone and has panelled aprons beneath the windows. The ground floor windows are framed with architraves, and there is an Ionic column doorpiece with a curved splay leading to the stair. The capitals of the columns have decayed, the chimneys have been removed, and the grounds have been built up.
Local climate
Ravenswood, New Road, Forfar 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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