Glenbardie Guest House is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 November 2006. Guest house. 10 related planning applications.
Glenbardie Guest House
- WRENN ID
- waning-spindle-mist
- 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
- Guest house
- Address
- Glenbardie Guest House, AB35 5RQ
- OS grid reference
- NO 365 960
- Coordinates
- 57.05111, -3.04818
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Glenbardie Guest House is a late 19th century single storey and attic, 3-bay L-plan house featuring a unique, battered, octagonal corbelled viewing tower located in the re-entrant angle to the north. The building is constructed of coursed pink granite and includes a base course and an eaves band course. It has raised coped skews and skewputts. Granite steps with iron banisters lead to a central 4-panelled timber door, which is set within a narrow pilastered timber doorpiece that includes narrow, part glazed sidelights and a granite console above. The entrance is flanked by canted bay windows that rise to full dormers with piended roofs.
The windows are predominantly 4-pane and plate glass timber sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slate and features gable stacks.
Access to the interior was not possible at the time of the visit, but it is believed to have been modernised in 2005.
There is an ancillary structure and boundary wall, which includes a single storey granite rubble former gig house to the northeast, featuring a 12-pane sash and case window, timber boarded doors, and a hayloft opening to the west gable. The slate roof complements the main building. The boundary wall is made of rubble with rubble coping and includes a pair of square, coped gate piers to the south.
Local climate
Glenbardie Guest 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 10 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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