Library House, 59 Water Street, Strichen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. House.

Library House, 59 Water Street, Strichen

WRENN ID
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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
Library House, 59 Water Street, Strichen, AB43 6ST
OS grid reference
NJ 944 553
Coordinates
57.58816, -2.09449
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Library House, located at 59 Water Street in Strichen, is a late 18th-century building that once served as the home of a threadmill manager. The house is two stories tall and features a three-window facade made of granite ashlar. It includes skewputts and a coped chimney, and retains its original glazing.

Local climate

Library House, 59 Water 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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