Greystone is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 2000. Cottage.
Greystone
- WRENN ID
- tilted-chamber-coral
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 2000
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NO 491 970
- Coordinates
- 57.0616, -2.84082
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Greystone is a single storey and attic cottage, likely designed by George Truefitt in the late 19th century. It has a square plan and features coursed granite with ladder snecking, rough-faced dressings, and finely finished margins. The cottage has sloping cills, bipartite windows, and overhanging eaves.
The southeast elevation is near-symmetrical, with a single window at the center of the ground floor, flanked by a blank bay on the left and a shingled bay on the right that is recessed under the pitch of the roof. This bay is supported by two rustic timber columns and a granite column at the outer angle. There is a glazed panelled timber door to the right of the bay, accompanied by a 4-pane window. A V-plan, slate-hung dormer breaks the pitch at the attic floor.
The northeast elevation is asymmetrical, featuring a small window at the center and a window in the flanking bay to the right, while the left has a shingled bay with a small-pane window.
The northwest elevation was not visible in 1998.
The southwest elevation is symmetrical, with two windows at the center.
The cottage predominantly has 2-pane timber casement windows and a piended grey slate roof adorned with fishscale banding on the southeast and lead ridges. There is a rough-faced, coped granite ridge stack with circular cans, as well as cast-iron and PVCu rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen in 1998.
The boundary walls consist of battered granite rubble with rubble coping.
Local climate
Greystone sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 73 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 51 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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