Summerhouse is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 November 2006. Summerhouse.
Summerhouse
- WRENN ID
- night-baluster-hemlock
- 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
- Summerhouse
- OS grid reference
- NO 177 925
- Coordinates
- 57.01653, -3.35595
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This mid-19th century summerhouse is a simple, rustic structure with a hexagonal shape and an open entrance facing south. It features a thatch roof and is located in the woods on a steep slope to the northeast of Invercauld House, offering extensive views of the house and its surrounding grounds. The summerhouse is supported by rustic timber columns that are placed between vertical timber sections, with open lattice timberwork in the upper half. Inside, there is a fixed bench.
Local climate
Summerhouse 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 greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 90 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 70 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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