Gordonstoun School, Cumming House is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 April 1989. School house. 7 related planning applications.
Gordonstoun School, Cumming House
- WRENN ID
- salt-foundation-bramble
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1989
- Type
- School house
- Address
- Gordonstoun School, Cumming House, IV30 5RQ
- OS grid reference
- NJ 181 689
- Coordinates
- 57.70322, -3.37496
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Cumming House at Gordonstoun School is a residential school building designed by George Kennedy in 1939. It is a two-storey structure with 13 bays arranged in a U-shape. The building features weatherboard cladding and walls that are intentionally designed to lean outwards, resting on a concrete base course.
The central section, consisting of 9 bays, is slightly set forward and includes a square-headed entrance that leads into the courtyard. This entrance is topped by a jettied first-floor bay, supported by pilasters and featuring a shaped open pediment with a long window at the center. The tall first-floor windows in the advanced bays are adorned with moulded wooden architraves.
The eastern elevation has 9 bays, while the western elevation has 5 bays, both of which feature multi-pane glazing. The roof is piended and covered with wooden shingles.
Local climate
Gordonstoun School, Cumming House receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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