Viewbank, 42 Park Road, Brechin is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 April 1979. House. 2 related planning applications.
Viewbank, 42 Park Road, Brechin
- WRENN ID
- eternal-buttress-russet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 April 1979
- Type
- House
- Address
- Viewbank, 42 Park Road, Brechin, DD9 7AP
- OS grid reference
- NO 607 602
- Coordinates
- 56.73193, -2.64374
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Viewbank, located at 42 Park Road in Brechin, is a building dated 1st January 1826. It is a two-storey structure with an attic, constructed from rubble and featuring raised margins around its openings and at the corners. There is a string course at the level of the first-floor cill. The front facade has three windows, with a central tripartite doorpiece that includes a panelled door and a fanlight, flanked by dummy sidelights, steps, and railings. The central first-floor window is also tripartite. The front elevation has a blocking course that is raised at the center.
The building has three dormers, with the outer pair being bipartite and the central one triangular, along with two window gables. The roof is piended and slated, with cut-down end stacks. On the rear elevation, there is a tall stair window in a piended rear projection, which is flanked by a lean-to on the left and a piended back wing on the right. The building retains its original glazing. Additionally, there is an octagonal timber and glass summerhouse with a fish scale slated roof.
Local climate
Viewbank, 42 Park Road, Brechin 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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