Buchan House, former manse of Strichen is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 February 1982. House. 2 related planning applications.

Buchan House, former manse of Strichen

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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 February 1982
Type
House
Address
Buchan House, former manse of Strichen, AB43 6TP
OS grid reference
NJ 946 541
Coordinates
57.57729, -2.09077
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Buchan House, formerly the manse of Strichen, was designed by Thomas Mackenzie of Mackenzie and Matthews in 1853. This Italian villa features an L-plan layout with a porch in the re-entrant angle. The front includes a shallow rectangular tripartite bay with three round-arched windows above, set in an advanced gable. There is a canted bay on the west gable, along with a back wing and a low two-storey east wing. The building is harled, with granite margins and dressings, and has low-pitched, broad-eaved roofs.

Local climate

Buchan House, former manse of 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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