1-3 Union Terrace, Aberdeen is a Grade A listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1967. Commercial building. 7 related planning applications.

1-3 Union Terrace, Aberdeen

WRENN ID
spare-gallery-root
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Constituency
Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 January 1967
Type
Commercial building
Address
1-3 Union Terrace, Aberdeen, AB10 1NJ
OS grid reference
NJ 938 061
Coordinates
57.14575, -2.10288
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

1-3 Union Terrace in Aberdeen is a three-storey building designed by A. Marshall Mackenzie of Matthews & Mackenzie in 1885, showcasing Renaissance architectural style. The facade features four windows facing Union Street and seven windows facing Union Terrace. The ground floor has a banded pulvination and is accentuated by Doric columns at the curved corner entry. The first floor is marked by coupled Ionic columns, which are topped with consoles on the second floor.

Local climate

1-3 Union Terrace, 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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