Lifeboat Station, Whitehills Harbour is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 May 1990. Lifeboat house. 1 related planning application.

Lifeboat Station, Whitehills Harbour

WRENN ID
waiting-tallow-falcon
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 May 1990
Type
Lifeboat house
Address
Lifeboat Station, Whitehills Harbour, AB45 2NQ
OS grid reference
NJ 655 656
Coordinates
57.67958, -2.57867
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Lifeboat Station at Whitehills Harbour is an early 20th-century rectangular building designed to house lifeboats and includes a slipway. It is constructed from squared mixed granite with tooled ashlar dressings, and features a concrete slipway. The building has slightly projecting bay fronts on the gable facing Harbour Place, which includes a double-leaf plank door. Wide double-leaf plank sliding doors allow access from the slipway into the house.

On the west elevation, there is a lean-to porch located in the center, which is covered by a continuous catslide roof and flanked by a window on each side. Above the boat doors, there is a gable loft window. The roof is made of slate with a tiled ridge, and the concrete slipway includes a track that leads up to the boat doors.

Local climate

Lifeboat Station, Whitehills Harbour 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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