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

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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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