Former Groom's House is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 November 2006.
Former Groom's House
- WRENN ID
- young-pilaster-auburn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 November 2006
- OS grid reference
- NO 439 806
- Coordinates
- 56.91405, -2.92157
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Stable and Harness Room is a group of three detached single-storey buildings dating from around 1848, arranged in a U-plan around a courtyard. The main building, which includes the coach house and stables, features three bays with an attic and two lower two-bay side wings. A three-bay cottage and a stable/harness room complete the sides of the courtyard. The buildings are constructed from roughly-squared, coursed granite with long and short granite quoins. The courtyard elevations have regular fenestration, while the outer elevations show a less regular pattern.
The coach house and stables are located to the north of the courtyard. The central three-bay section has three sliding timber-boarded doors for the coach house or garage at ground level, with a small hayloft entrance above. Each gable has adjoining two-bay stable wings, featuring a timber-boarded door to the inner bay and a window to the outer bay. There is a later 19th-century addition to the north elevation, which has a catslide roof extending from the central block, with an irregular arrangement of doors and windows and a small chimney stack positioned left of centre. The interior of the stable contains boarded timber stalls.
To the east of the courtyard is the former groom's house, a three-bay cottage with a central door. It has gablehead stacks and a wallhead stack at the centre of the east elevation.
To the west of the courtyard is the stable and harness room, which consists of a three-bay range featuring three doors on the courtyard elevation and three irregularly spaced windows on the west elevation. This building also has gablehead stacks and roof lights, along with the remains of an early 20th-century brick garage at the south gable.
Local climate
Former Groom's House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 85 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 61 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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