Buchollie House, Main Street, Lybster is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. 2 related planning applications.

Buchollie House, Main Street, Lybster

WRENN ID
strange-outpost-pigeon
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 November 1984
Address
Buchollie House, Main Street, Lybster, KW3 6AQ
OS grid reference
ND 248 352
Coordinates
58.29921, -3.28457
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Buchollie House, also sometimes known as Ruchazie, is a mid-19th century, two-storey, five-bay house. Originally constructed as two dwellings, it is situated on the west side of Main Street in Lybster. The house has a harled front facade, with a rubble construction to the south gable. The ground floor features an alternating pattern of window, door, window, door, and window, with one door now replaced by a window. Bays two and four have blind windows on the first floor. The windows are fitted with 12-pane glazing. Corniced end stacks rise from the roof, which is covered in slate.

Local climate

Buchollie House, Main Street, Lybster receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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