Former Lifeboat Station, 17 Low Street, Buckie is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 April 1989. Lifeboat station.
Former Lifeboat Station, 17 Low Street, Buckie
- WRENN ID
- scattered-chalk-honey
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1989
- Type
- Lifeboat station
- OS grid reference
- NJ 426 658
- Coordinates
- 57.6785, -2.96248
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The former Lifeboat Station at 17 Low Street in Buckie was built in 1884 and designed by the architect William Hendry. This rectangular, single-storey building features three bays and is constructed from rubble with tooled and polished ashlar dressings. The wide entrance on the east-facing gable is now covered by a heavy sliding door. Above the gable, moulded string courses define the structure, with a central projecting canted three-light oriel flanked by moulded ashlar casings that once held plaques linked to the string course. These plaques, which have been removed, were made of painted pottery and depicted lifeboat insignia with fleurs-de-lis detailing. The building has a crowstepped gable topped with a ball finial at the apex, and moulded wallheads along the long elevations. The roof is covered with slate and features a red pottery ridge.
Local climate
Former Lifeboat Station, 17 Low Street, Buckie sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% 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 0.3°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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