Highhowe, 9 Carse View Drive, Bearsden is a Grade B listed building in the East Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 January 1979. House.
Highhowe, 9 Carse View Drive, Bearsden
- WRENN ID
- last-span-ochre
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Dunbartonshire
- Constituency
- Mid Dunbartonshire MP: Susan Murray (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1979
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NS 552 728
- Coordinates
- 55.92711, -4.3189
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Highhowe, located at 9 Carse View Drive in Bearsden, is a building designed by J.H.R. MacDonald of John MacDonald Contractors Ltd. in 1933, showcasing the International style. This two-storey structure features a whitewashed smooth render exterior, a brick base, and brick sills, topped with a flat oversailing roof that has a deep fascia and railings.
The southeast elevation is asymmetrical with two windows and a curved east angle that includes six-light windows. At the first floor level, there is a cantilevered canopy with curved ends that extends around to the northeast elevation, which has a narrow V-oriel window above the entrance door, with fenestration arranged in recessed bands. The northwest elevation displays irregular fenestration, a porch, and a slim corbelled chimney breast. There is a later addition on the southwest side. The building has low stacks with brick coping and original metal lying pane casements throughout. Additionally, there is a roughcast garden wall with brick coping.
Local climate
Highhowe, 9 Carse View Drive, Bearsden sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% 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 0.2°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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