St Nicholas, 68-70 Station Road, Banchory is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 1980. School, house. 2 related planning applications.

St Nicholas, 68-70 Station Road, Banchory

WRENN ID
late-porch-root
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 November 1980
Type
School, house
Address
St Nicholas, 68-70 Station Road, Banchory, AB31 5YJ
OS grid reference
NO 707 958
Coordinates
57.0524, -2.48421
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Nicholas, located at 68-70 Station Road in Banchory, is a simple neo-Jacobean building dating from around 1840. It originally served as a school and schoolhouse. The school section features a symmetrical single-storey design with a double gable front and a lower central gabled porch. The exterior is harled and slated, with straight skewed gables topped with spike finials and small paned glazing. The house portion is also single storey with an attic, displaying a two-window façade and a central door. It includes a central gabled dormer on the first floor facing the road, with 12-pane sash windows, a gabled roof, straight skews with skewputts, and end stacks.

Local climate

St Nicholas, 68-70 Station Road, Banchory receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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