Walled Garden And Garden Cottage, Letterfourie House is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 April 1989. Garden, cottage. 1 related planning application.
Walled Garden And Garden Cottage, Letterfourie House
- WRENN ID
- ghost-corner-pine
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1989
- Type
- Garden, cottage
- OS grid reference
- NJ 448 619
- Coordinates
- 57.64377, -2.92576
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Walled Garden and Garden Cottage at Letterfourie House date from 1770 to 1780 and are situated on a south-facing sloping site. The garden features large rectangular rubble walls, which are lined with brick on the southern aspect of the northern wall, and have a tooled ashlar coping with polished ashlar dressings.
In the middle of the northern wall, there is a wide, projecting garden room or orangery with a pediment, consisting of five bays and curved angles. The entrance has a doorway with a radial fanlight and flanking windows, along with additional windows in each bowed angle, all featuring multi-pane glazing. The southern aspect of the garden room is defined by two wide segmental-headed arches, although the original roof is missing.
The southern wall of the garden includes a wide round-headed entrance with a keystone. Incorporated into the northern wall is a later two-storey, three-bay house, which is partially brick and partially harled, with windows that open into the garden and feature two- and four-pane glazing. The house also has two later dormers, brick end and wallhead stacks, and a slate roof.
The approximate measurements of the walled garden are 73 by 117 yards (66 by 107 meters), with a wall height of 20 feet (6 meters).
Local climate
Walled Garden And Garden Cottage, Letterfourie House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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