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Former Lifeboat Station, 17 Low Street, Buckie

A Category B Listed Building in Buckie, Moray

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.6785 / 57°40'42"N

Longitude: -2.9625 / 2°57'44"W

OS Eastings: 342698

OS Northings: 865814

OS Grid: NJ426658

Mapcode National: GBR M81F.HLR

Mapcode Global: WH7KJ.G8JD

Plus Code: 9C9VM2HQ+C2

Entry Name: Former Lifeboat Station, 17 Low Street, Buckie

Listing Name: Buckie Harbour, 17 Low Street, Former Lifeboat Station

Listing Date: 25 April 1989

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 358339

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB22723

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Buckie, 17 Low Street, Former Lifeboat Station

ID on this website: 200358339

Location: Buckie

County: Moray

Town: Buckie

Electoral Ward: Buckie

Traditional County: Banffshire

Tagged with: Warehouse Lifeboat station

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Description

Dated 1884, style of William Hendry architect, Buckie. Rectangular, single storey, 3-bay lifeboat house. Rubble, tooled and polished ashlar dressings. Wide east facing gable entrance now masked by heavy sliding door. Gable above defined by moulded string courses with centre projecting canted 3-light oriel flanked by moulded ashlar casings for plaques linked to string course. The former plaques (removed) were of painted pottery and depicted lifeboat insignia with fleurs-de-lis detailing. Crowstepped gable; apex ball finial. Moulded wallhead to long elevations; slate roof with red pottery ridge.

Statement of Interest

Lifeboat station built to replace former lifeboat house demolished circa 1883 to make way for railway. Building no longer houses lifeboat. Former pottery plaques (removed) were initialled RNLBI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution), and decorated with crown, foliage and oarsmen in sou'westers rowing a lifeboat. These plaques were a rare survival; no others are known in Moray. Plaques were removed prior to 2008.

Listed building record revised in 2020.

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