Botriphnie Primary School, Drummuir is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 March 1988. School. 1 related planning application.

Botriphnie Primary School, Drummuir

WRENN ID
worn-iron-foxglove
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 March 1988
Type
School
Address
Botriphnie Primary School, Drummuir, AB55 5JF
OS grid reference
NJ 379 441
Coordinates
57.48355, -3.03606
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Botriphnie Primary School, located in Drummuir, was designed by architect F D Robertson in 1875, with additions made by J D Corrigall in 1905. This single-storey school features a rambling layout and showcases French Gothic detailing. The exterior is harled, with polished ashlar margins and dressings. The entrance is centrally located on the north elevation, beneath a Gothic ashlar gablet that has incised decoration at the base of an advanced tower. This tower includes paired Gothic lights on the first stage and a bellcast truncated spire.

Flanking the entrance are two-light pointed-headed windows beneath gables, which also feature incised decoration in the tympana. The south elevation has similar windows, as well as paired square-headed windows with shaped margins and various oculi. The building is adorned with decorative cast-iron apex finials, coped end and ridge stacks, and has piended slate roofs. Surrounding the school and playground are low coped rubble walls.

Local climate

Botriphnie Primary School, Drummuir sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% 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 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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