Primary School, Mary Avenue, Aberlour is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 November 1987. School. 11 related planning applications.
Primary School, Mary Avenue, Aberlour
- WRENN ID
- open-cloister-plum
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1987
- Type
- School
- Address
- Primary School, Mary Avenue, Aberlour, AB38 9PN
- OS grid reference
- NJ 265 427
- Coordinates
- 57.46924, -3.2256
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Primary School on Mary Avenue in Aberlour was built by Brown and Watt from Aberdeen between 1896 and 1897, and it is constructed from tooled granite with tooled ashlar sandstone dressings. This purpose-built school features a two-storey, three-bay central block that houses a full-height central hall, which is fronted by a single-storey, three-bay northwest entrance front that connects to flanking gabled school rooms. The central door is situated beneath a shaped and finialled datestone, with tripartite windows on either side. The tripartites have a longer center light under a dummy pediment in the outer gabled bays, each of which includes a glazed oculus gablet topped with a decorative ashlar apex finial.
The southwest elevation has five bays, with two longer windows that break the wallhead in slightly advanced gabled bays. The northeast elevation is irregular and includes some modern additions. The school features multi-pane glazing, a coped wallhead, and apex stacks, along with slate roofs that have ridge ventilators.
Local climate
Primary School, Mary Avenue, Aberlour 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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