Stables, Dinnet House Policies is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 November 2006. Stable block.
Stables, Dinnet House Policies
- WRENN ID
- grim-pillar-lake
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 November 2006
- Type
- Stable block
- OS grid reference
- NO 448 978
- Coordinates
- 57.0686, -2.91087
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The stables at Dinnet House Policies were built around 1890, with possible minor alterations made between 1920 and 1925 by George Bennet Mitchell. This well-detailed, mostly unaltered single-storey and attic U-plan stable block features a lower garage conversion at the eastern wing. The structure is made from large granite blocks with raised margins and some bull-faced cills. It has crowstepped gables topped with finials or stacks, and attic windows with piended dormer heads that break the eaves. Conical-roofed circular ridge ventilators add to its character.
The courtyard elevation faces southeast and includes lower projecting outer wings, with the southwest wing featuring an M-gable and the northeast wing having broad garage-type doors on the return to the left. The windows are timber sash and case with a 4-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with grey slates, and the building has coped ashlar stacks and ashlar-coped skews with moulded skewputts. Additionally, there are cast iron square-section gutters and downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.
Local climate
Stables, Dinnet House Policies sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 80 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 57 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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