Larders, Birkhall is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 2010. Larder.
Larders, Birkhall
- WRENN ID
- tired-keep-jay
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 March 2010
- Type
- Larder
- OS grid reference
- NO 348 935
- Coordinates
- 57.02834, -3.07535
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Larders at Birkhall, built around 1935 and 1950, consist of two timber game larders located at the rear of the stables.
The earlier larder is polygonal in shape, constructed with boarded timber on a granite base. It features overhanging eaves supported by slender polygonal timber posts. There is a door on one side with a gauze screened panel, and gauze screens on four sides with additional gauze screened panels above the door. The roof is polygonal, covered with tarred felt, and includes timber flashing and a finial.
The later larder has a rectangular plan and is made of lathed timber on a concrete base. The principal elevation has two doors, with a two-leaf door on the left, flanking a high fixed gauze screened window. Similar high gauze screened windows are present on the other sides. The roof is covered with grey slate, featuring lead flashings and a louvred timber ventilator topped with a ball finial.
Local climate
Larders, Birkhall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 89 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 67 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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