Ranger's House And Store, Trapper's House, Brochdu Farmhouse is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 2010. Farmhouse.
Ranger's House And Store, Trapper's House, Brochdu Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- silver-roof-rain
- 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
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NO 349 931
- Coordinates
- 57.02485, -3.0725
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ranger's House and Store, Trapper's House, and Brochdu Farmhouse is a mid-19th century single-storey cottage with a later attic, featuring three bays. It is located on sloping ground above the River Muick. The building is constructed from squared, variegated granite with harl-pointing on the sides and rear.
The west elevation has a central door, with a window in each of the flanking bays. Above the outer bays are canted, slate-hung dormers with piend roofs. The windows are predominantly replacement 4-pane timber sash and case. The roof is covered with graded grey slates and includes a cast-iron rooflight. The stone ridge and coped skews are complemented by end stacks.
Local climate
Ranger's House And Store, Trapper's House, Brochdu Farmhouse 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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