Garden House, Gordon Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. Garden house.

Garden House, Gordon Castle

WRENN ID
bitter-bailey-evening
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 January 1971
Type
Garden house
OS grid reference
NJ 348 591
Coordinates
57.61798, -3.09275
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Garden House at Gordon Castle is an 1811, two-storey, three-bay house featuring a later projecting gabled bay at the rear. The house is bordered on both sides by the north wall of the walled garden, with the south elevation slightly projecting into the garden. The front is made of brick, while the rear is harled.

The symmetrical south elevation showcases a wide central projecting canted bay that includes a central entrance and small windows on the flanking facets. The outer bays have wider ground floor windows, while all first-floor windows are segmental-headed and positioned close to the eaves. The outer windows consist of three lights, while the remaining windows have two lights, both types divided by thick moulded wooden mullions and featuring multi-pane glazing. The house has a pair of coped ridge stacks and a piended slate roof that is raised over the first-floor windows.

At the rear, there are slightly projecting central bays, which are now fronted by a later wing that includes an entrance in the re-entrant angle.

Local climate

Garden House, Gordon Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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