Chapel Cottage, Orton is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 November 1987. Cottage.
Chapel Cottage, Orton
- WRENN ID
- deep-gable-twilight
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NJ 320 551
- Coordinates
- 57.58097, -3.13788
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Chapel Cottage in Orton is a Gothic-style, single-storey, cruciform cottage built in 1854, likely designed by architect Thomas MacKenzie from Elgin. The cottage features a three-bay facade with a tooled ashlar front, a rubble east gable, and modern harling on other sides, complemented by tooled and polished ashlar dressings.
The central porch is advanced and gabled, featuring a recessed pointed-headed entrance with cusped detailing and a pair of flanking nook-shafts decorated with nailhead motifs. Above the porch is a trefoil plaque in the gablet. The cottage has paired lights and flanking pointed-headed bipartite windows, as well as large pointed-headed plate traceried windows in the east and west gables.
All windows and the doorway are adorned with hoodmoulds that have masked stops. The glazing is lattice-pane, and the eaves cornice on the front displays stylised mask corbels. The roof features sawtooth skews, a central ridge stack, and is covered with local slate.
Local climate
Chapel Cottage, Orton 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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