Lickleyhead Castle is a Grade A listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 November 1972. Castle. 6 related planning applications.
Lickleyhead Castle
- WRENN ID
- calm-vault-cedar
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1972
- Type
- Castle
- Address
- Lickleyhead Castle, AB52 6PN
- OS grid reference
- NJ 627 236
- Coordinates
- 57.30201, -2.62027
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Lickleyhead Castle is an L-shaped building dated 1629, featuring three and a half storeys on one side and two and a half storeys on the other. The exterior is harled, with a corbie-stepped design and a slated roof that includes pedimented dormers. The castle has angle turrets with ovoid windows and displays the date above the entrance in the re-entrant angle. There is an 18th-century wing to the east, also in an L plan, which has two storeys.
Local climate
Lickleyhead Castle receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% 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 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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