Alltdourie Cottage is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 1980. Cottage.
Alltdourie Cottage
- WRENN ID
- scattered-chalk-crag
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NO 166 929
- Coordinates
- 57.0202, -3.37402
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Alltdourie Cottage is an early 19th century single storey and attic former factor's house. It features five bays and has dormers that break the wallhead, along with deep eaves. The building is constructed of coursed pink rubble and is oriented to the south, offering a wide view across the River Dee to Braemar. Notable architectural elements include a distinctive central bowed porch and outer bowed bays with tripartite windows on the south elevation. The north elevation has crow stepped dormerheads, while the west elevation features a verandah with a slate roof supported by rustic timber columns.
The cottage has predominantly plate glass timber sash and case windows and cast iron rainwater goods. There are two wallhead stacks on the north side that rise from the ground, and two ridge stacks on the south. The roof is covered with grey graded slate and includes some octagonal chimney cans, with an M-pile piended design that bell-casts on the south elevation.
Inside, the original floorplan is mostly intact and retains numerous original features, including servants' bells, working timber shutters, and six-panel timber doors. The southern part of the house has an enfilade of rooms, and there is a distinctive long narrow hall along the horizontal axis. Decorative Georgian timber chimneypieces can be found throughout, and the northern part of the house features four-panel timber doors.
Additionally, there is an ancillary structure, which is a single storey, three-bay hut painted in weatherboard located to the north. This hut also has timber sash and case windows.
Local climate
Alltdourie Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 90 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 70 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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