Walled Garden, Auchernach House is a Grade B listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Walled garden.
Walled Garden, Auchernach House
- WRENN ID
- dusk-brass-pine
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- Type
- Walled garden
- OS grid reference
- NJ 330 159
- Coordinates
- 57.22963, -3.11105
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Walled Garden at Auchernach House, built around 1810, is an impressive large rectangular garden enclosed by walls, featuring crenellated towers and a central terrace. It is located on a south-facing slope behind the former Auchernach House, overlooking the Water of Nochty. The northern wall has a tall, slim granite ashlar tower with raised quoin strips and margins at its center. There are circular towers on both the eastern and western walls, and the wall is breached at the southeast corner. The high walls are made of rubble and partly harled, with flat coping.
On the south elevation of the northern wall, there are steps leading up to a door in the first stage of the square tower. The second stage has an inscribed granite panel below a panel that once held a clock, with a louvered opening above. The round towers also provide access to the garden. Additionally, there are vaulted cellars, which are remnants of the early house, and remains of a concrete arcade at the ruinous southern edge. A further wall extends to the northwest.
Local climate
Walled Garden, Auchernach House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 90 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 67 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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