Balcary Lifeboat Station is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 April 1990. Lifeboat station.
Balcary Lifeboat Station
- WRENN ID
- waiting-truss-pigeon
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1990
- Type
- Lifeboat station
- OS grid reference
- NX 827 493
- Coordinates
- 54.82558, -3.82609
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Balcary Lifeboat Station, dated 1883, is a rectangular lifeboat house that is now disused. It is a single storey building with an attic, constructed from squared pinned rubble with granite quoins, margins, and banding detail on the sides and gable ends. The seaward gable features wide double doors, and a concrete slipway is still present. Above the doors, there is a loft door flanked by a pair of decorative cast-iron roundels that display maritime symbols, with the one on the right dated 1883. The sides of the building have three regularly spaced windows, and the roofs are pitched and covered with slate.
Local climate
Balcary Lifeboat Station sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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 0.2°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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