Including Boundary Wall, (Former Frederick Street School), Frederick Street Business Centre, Frederick Street is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 July 2007. Former school. 3 related planning applications.
Including Boundary Wall, (Former Frederick Street School), Frederick Street Business Centre, Frederick Street
- WRENN ID
- carved-corner-mallow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Constituency
- Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 July 2007
- Type
- Former school
- OS grid reference
- NJ 945 066
- Coordinates
- 57.15038, -2.0916
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The former Frederick Street School, now the Frederick Street Business Centre, is a three-storey building constructed in 1905. It features a double-height ground floor and has a symmetrical Classical design with twelve bays. Notable architectural elements include a rooftop playground and two distinctive stair towers with canted bays that are parapetted and domed, rising above the roof level. The exterior is finished in grey granite ashlar with Aberdeen bonding, featuring rock-faced stone at the ground level and rubble at the rear. Doric pilasters separate the bays starting from the first storey, and there is a high granite parapet with large railed openings, including pedimented sections on the outer bays of the southern elevation.
The building has predominantly non-traditional replacement windows with three, four, and five panes, as well as nine-pane circular windows on the third storey of the stair towers. It has gable stacks and a flat roof.
The boundary wall to the south is low, constructed in Aberdeen bond with a coped top, and features two pairs of square-plan ashlar gatepiers on either side, each topped with shallow pyramidal caps.
Inside, the original layout is partially preserved, with corridors leading to former classrooms on the upper floors, some of which have been altered. There are some timber doorframes, a pair of dog-leg staircases with iron balusters and timber banisters, and simple cornicing in certain areas.
Local climate
Including Boundary Wall, (Former Frederick Street School), Frederick Street Business Centre, Frederick Street receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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