Moor House is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 November 2006. House.

Moor House

WRENN ID
gaunt-courtyard-fog
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
House
OS grid reference
NO 412 982
Coordinates
57.0717, -2.97095
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Moor House, dated 1878, is a two-storey, three-bay, L-plan quarry master's house that faces south towards the River Dee. It features upper breaking eaves and distinctive pedimented wallhead dormers, with the central dormer dated 1878 and adorned with a fleur-de-lis apex detail. The house has a late 19th-century single-storey outshot at the rear, which has a monopitch roof. The exterior is constructed of stugged, squared, coursed, and snecked granite.

The windows are 4-pane sash and case timber, and there is a boarded timber rear door with a glazed inset. The roof is grey slated with lead flashing, and the granite skews are tooled. The house has stugged, squared granite stacks featuring a simple cornice and octagonal clay cans, along with cast-iron rhones and rhone pipes.

Inside, Moor House retains some original features, including decorative plasterwork in the main reception room, 4-panel doors, and a timber staircase with timber balusters and handrail.

The boundary walls are made of stugged, squared, and snecked granite with bull-faced coping. The gatepiers are square and tooled, with narrow ashlar margins and bull-faced capitals topped with large ball finials. There is a wrought-iron gate and railings.

Local climate

Moor House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% 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 87 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 63 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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