Column, Aberlour House is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Column.
Column, Aberlour House
- WRENN ID
- sunken-gable-lichen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1972
- Type
- Column
- OS grid reference
- NJ 278 437
- Coordinates
- 57.47808, -3.20494
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Column at Aberlour House was designed by William Robertson and built between 1838 and 1839, with a rebuild in 1888. It stands 60 to 65 feet high and is made of ashlar granite. The column features a square plinth with an inscription and a stepped base. At the top, it supports a heraldic beast that is clasping an iron staff, which has an iron pennant pierced by the letter F.
Local climate
Column, Aberlour House 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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