Chef's House, Aberlour House is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 November 1987. House.

Chef's House, Aberlour House

WRENN ID
little-glass-bramble
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
House
OS grid reference
NJ 280 433
Coordinates
57.47511, -3.20079
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Chef's House at Aberlour House is a 2-storey, 3-bay house built between 1860 and 1870. It features a gabled asymmetrical design with long elevations on the northwest and southeast sides, and it has a walled garden wall that connects to the house at the northeast and southwest return gables. The structure is made of brick with tooled ashlar dressings.

The house includes a gabled porch located in the southwest re-entrant angle, and it has round-headed bipartite windows on both the ground and first floors. All windows have corbelled cills, and the ground floor windows are adorned with bracketed cornices. There is extensive long-short detailing on the entrance porch, window fenestration, and the angles of the building. Some first-floor windows extend under gablets and feature multi-pane glazing. The roof has a slate covering with projecting eaves, complemented by four coped ridge stacks and paired end stacks.

A rear door provides access to the garden. There is also a later single-storey flat-roofed extension at the southwest side of the house.

Local climate

Chef's House, 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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