Rathven Old School is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 April 1989. School. 4 related planning applications.

Rathven Old School

WRENN ID
secret-flue-meadow
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
School
Address
Rathven Old School, AB56 4DD
OS grid reference
NJ 444 656
Coordinates
57.6777, -2.9327
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Rathven Old School is a building dating from around 1800, possibly incorporating earlier materials. It is a two-storey, irregular south-facing house with five bays, which was originally two bays plus three bays. The exterior is finished in harled rubble with contrasting painted margins. The central door serves the three-bay section, while there is a blocked door that once served the former two-bay section on the west side. The first floor features three small windows with varied glazing. The building has coped end stacks and a local slate roof. At the rear, there is a single-storey, two-bay wing with a piended roof and a ridge stack.

Local climate

Rathven Old School 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 greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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