5 Castle Street, Brechin is a Grade C listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 April 1979. House. 2 related planning applications.
5 Castle Street, Brechin
- WRENN ID
- rough-minaret-violet
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 April 1979
- Type
- House
- Address
- 5 Castle Street, Brechin, DD9 6JW
- OS grid reference
- NO 594 601
- Coordinates
- 56.73123, -2.66397
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
5 Castle Street in Brechin is a simple late classical building dating from 1881. It features a front made of stugged ashlar with polished dressings and is two stories tall with an attic. The building has raised quoins and a band course at the first floor level. The central entrance consists of a panelled door with a fanlight and cornice, flanked by two bipartite windows. There are three windows on the first floor, with the outer pair being bipartite as well. The wallhead chimney gable includes a date panel. The roof is slated and has one modern box dormer. The flanks of the building are constructed of rubble. At the rear, there is a first-floor door with a timber porch and another modern box dormer.
Local climate
5 Castle Street, 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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- 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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