Glenshee Manse Cottage is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 1981. Cottage.

Glenshee Manse Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Cairngorms National Park
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 June 1981
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NO 109 701
Coordinates
56.81448, -3.46056
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Glenshee Manse Cottage is a single-storey building made of whitewashed rubble, topped with a steeply pitched roof. Originally, it served as a manse steading and schoolroom before being converted into a cottage.

Local climate

Glenshee Manse 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 lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 87 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 64 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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