Cowiesburn House, Pluscarden is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 November 1987.
Cowiesburn House, Pluscarden
- WRENN ID
- rough-wall-grove
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1987
- OS grid reference
- NJ 148 573
- Coordinates
- 57.59786, -3.42663
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Cowiesburn House is a mid-19th century, symmetrical, three-bay, two-storey and attic house constructed in a Gothic style. The exterior is predominantly harled with ashlar dressings and margins. A shallow, projecting porch, finished in ashlar, sits at the centre and is gabled with bargeboarding. Pointed windows are positioned on either side of the porch; three windows are visible on the first floor and are similarly detailed, rising through projecting eaves in gablets. The two-bay flanks feature a comparable window arrangement. The windows are fitted with Gothic glazing. Four symmetrical corniced ridge stacks are present, along with a piended and platform slate roof.
The building served as the former Pluscarden Free Church Manse, though it was not originally constructed as such. It was purchased by the Free Church in 1888 using funds raised at a bazaar in Elgin. The house appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1876.
Local climate
Cowiesburn House, Pluscarden 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 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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