Findochty Castle Cottage is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 April 1989. Cottage.
Findochty Castle Cottage
- WRENN ID
- small-cupola-grain
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1989
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NJ 455 673
- Coordinates
- 57.69273, -2.91497
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Findochty Castle Cottage is a small, single-storey, three-bay cottage built in the mid-19th century, located near Findochty Castle. It is likely made from salvaged rubble from the nearby castle and has been whitewashed. The cottage features a central entrance set within a small gabled porch, with small windows on either side. It has end stacks and a pantiled roof.
Local climate
Findochty Castle Cottage 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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