Cambus Cottage including Platform, Cambus O'May is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 November 2006. Halt. 2 related planning applications.
Cambus Cottage including Platform, Cambus O'May
- WRENN ID
- brooding-gable-elm
- 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
- Halt
- Address
- Cambus Cottage including Platform, Cambus O'May, AB35 5SD
- OS grid reference
- NO 422 974
- Coordinates
- 57.06443, -2.95453
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Cambus Cottage, built in 1876, is a small, charming single-storey building with a rectangular plan, featuring canted angles and a polygonal roof on the southwest and northwest sides. It is situated on the former Aboyne to Ballater Railway and has been converted for accommodation. The base course is rendered, while the rest of the structure is covered in vertical weatherboarding. The wide central tripartite windows have corniced frames.
The southwest elevation, which faces the former railway line, is symmetrical with three bays and includes a central replacement door. The northeast elevation, which faces a rise in land towards the road, is blank.
The windows are timber sash and case with multi-pane glazing patterns over plate glass. The roof is swept with overhanging eaves, covered in grey slates adorned with decorative red ridge tiles and finials, as well as traditional rooflights on the northeast side. There is a single masonry stack and cast iron rainwater goods with decorative fixings.
Local climate
Cambus Cottage including Platform, Cambus O'May 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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