Old Schoolhouse, Towie is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. School house.

Old Schoolhouse, Towie

WRENN ID
lapsed-frieze-peregrine
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 April 1971
Type
School house
OS grid reference
NJ 439 129
Coordinates
57.20354, -2.92927
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Old Schoolhouse in Towie is an early 19th-century building that is two stories tall and features three windows on its front. The exterior is harled with margins, and there is a door located between the first and second windows on the ground floor. Additionally, there is a single-storey extension that serves as a school room, with its windows raised in the roof. The building retains its original sash windows.

Local climate

Old Schoolhouse, Towie sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% 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 81 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 59 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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