Holmwood, 103 High Street, Strichen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. House. 1 related planning application.

Holmwood, 103 High Street, Strichen

WRENN ID
scarred-gargoyle-auburn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 April 1971
Type
House
Address
Holmwood, 103 High Street, Strichen, AB43 6SQ
OS grid reference
NJ 944 554
Coordinates
57.58878, -2.09408
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Holmwood, located at 103 High Street in Strichen, is a building dating from around 1800 to 1802. The central block is two stories high with an attic and features a three-window granite ashlar front. It has an architraved doorpiece that is enclosed within a later glass porch. The building includes skewputts, two later canted dormers, and coped chimneys. There are two set-back wings with piend roofs; the southeast wing has a later glass addition, while the northwest wing, which contains a harness room with coachman's quarters above, is a single storey and attic structure that is harled with margins and has a single later canted dormer.

Local climate

Holmwood, 103 High Street, Strichen receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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