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Twin Circular Structures, Fetterletter

A Category C Listed Building in Turriff and District, Aberdeenshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.4403 / 57°26'25"N

Longitude: -2.3284 / 2°19'42"W

OS Eastings: 380385

OS Northings: 838932

OS Grid: NJ803389

Mapcode National: GBR N9M1.S0M

Mapcode Global: WH8N4.68H1

Plus Code: 9C9VCMRC+4J

Entry Name: Twin Circular Structures, Fetterletter

Listing Name: Fetterletter, Twin Circular Structures N.w. of Farmhouse

Listing Date: 15 February 1982

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 407448

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB9627

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200407448

Location: Fyvie

County: Aberdeenshire

Electoral Ward: Turriff and District

Parish: Fyvie

Traditional County: Aberdeenshire

Description

Probably late 18th century, doocots or early hen-houses.

Rubble built and harled walls with rat-courses. Conical, felt tiled roofs covering some remnants of thatch.

Statement of Interest

It is among a relatively small number of traditional buildings with remnants of a thatched roof found across Scotland. A Survey of Thatched Buildings in Scotland, published in 2016 by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), found there were only around 200 buildings with thatched roofs, most of which are found in small rural communities. Thatched buildings are often traditionally built, showing distinctive local and regional building methods and materials. Those that survive are important in helping us understand these traditional skills and an earlier way of life.

Listed building record revised in 2021 as part of the Thatched Buildings Listing Review.

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