Swiss Cottage, Gordon Castle is a Grade A listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. Cottage.
Swiss Cottage, Gordon Castle
- WRENN ID
- third-corner-rain
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1971
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NJ 369 595
- Coordinates
- 57.62135, -3.05689
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Swiss Cottage at Gordon Castle is a mid-19th century, two-storey timber cottage designed in an Alpine style. It features a wide single bay and is constructed with red-painted weatherboarding. The entrance is located at the rear, while the northeast gable projects and is supported by square wooden posts that extend through the jettied gable front. A flat balustered balcony, which is supported by brackets, runs along the first-floor long elevations and the southwest gable. Each elevation has single two-light multi-pane glazed windows with wooden shutters, positioned on either the ground or first floor. The cottage has a red tiled roof with a ridge and deep eaves that are supported by shaped wooden brackets. A tooled ashlar coped ridge stack is present, and the return gables are decorated with carved detailing, primarily featuring geometric forms and billet-moulding.
Local climate
Swiss Cottage, 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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