Riverside House, 244 Market Street, Aberdeen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 June 1991. Former tramshed.
Riverside House, 244 Market Street, Aberdeen
- WRENN ID
- iron-granite-honey
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Constituency
- Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 June 1991
- Type
- Former tramshed
- OS grid reference
- NJ 946 055
- Coordinates
- 57.14091, -2.09074
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Riverside House, located at 244 Market Street in Aberdeen, is a single-storey, rectangular-plan classical former tramshed, built around 1905, possibly by Arthur Clyne. The building is situated on a prominent corner site and features coursed grey rough-faced granite that is finely finished at the margins. It has a rough-faced pink granite base course, moulded lintels above the windows, and finely finished pink granite pilastered bays, along with a pink granite eaves course and cornice, and an eaves blocking course.
The northwest elevation, which is the principal facade, is symmetrical and includes a large pink granite, stop-chamfered, round-arched tram entrance at the center, complete with a hoodmould and decorative paired label stops. This entrance is flanked on both sides by pilasters that support a simple pediment adorned with pink granite dressings.
The northeast and southeast elevations are obscured by late 20th-century additions. The southwest elevation is near-symmetrical and features six pilastered bays with regular window arrangements. Notably, the cill of the window on the outer right has been dropped to the base course. There is a doorway in the outer left bay that has a modern two-leaf door, with a plaque to the right reading "RIVERSIDE HOUSE."
The building has replacement small-pane glazing and a lead roof, with coped stone skews. The interior is currently undergoing alterations as of 1999.
Local climate
Riverside House, 244 Market Street, 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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