York Street Nursery School, Aberdeen is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 June 1999. Former nursery school. 1 related planning application.
York Street Nursery School, Aberdeen
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-hinge-vale
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Constituency
- Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1999
- Type
- Former nursery school
- Address
- York Street Nursery School, Aberdeen, AB11 5DL
- OS grid reference
- NJ 953 061
- Coordinates
- 57.14633, -2.07927
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
York Street Nursery School in Aberdeen, designed by Pirie & Clyne, was built in 1881 with an addition made to the rear in 1892. This single-storey, gabled former nursery school features a prominent two-stage square-plan bell tower at the center of the south elevation, which faces the street, topped with a pyramidal roof. The street-facing elevation is constructed of squared, coursed granite, while the other sides use Aberdeen-bond masonry. The building has a battered base course, some hoodmoulds, and simple stone finials at the apex of the gables. The south elevation includes tripartite pointed-arched window openings.
Most of the windows are now non-traditional uPVC lying-pane types. The roof is covered with grey slate, and the stone skews have simple gableted or blocked skewputts. The building features coped, shouldered ridge and wallhead stacks.
Inside, as observed in 2006, the interior has been predominantly altered, although some cornicing and skirting boards remain.
The boundary wall consists of a coped, coursed granite wall with simple ironwork railings, and there is a rubble and brick wall to the east.
Local climate
York Street Nursery School, Aberdeen receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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