Stables, Brechin Castle, Brechin is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 June 1971. Stableblock.

Stables, Brechin Castle, Brechin

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Angus
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 June 1971
Type
Stableblock
OS grid reference
NO 596 599
Coordinates
56.72987, -2.66073
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The stables at Brechin Castle are a quadrangular building from 1806, featuring a symmetrical ashlar stone frontage. It is a single-storey structure with windows set in arches and a pyramid-roofed central section, flanked by two-storey end pavilions. The northern frontage, which faces into the courtyard, includes an impressive central feature with an archway supported by a screen of two Doric columns.

Local climate

Stables, Brechin Castle, Brechin sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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