No 15 South Square, Footdee is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1967. Terraced house.

No 15 South Square, Footdee

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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Constituency
Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 January 1967
Type
Terraced house
OS grid reference
NJ 958 057
Coordinates
57.14301, -2.07035
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

No 15 South Square in Footdee is a terraced house built between 1808 and 1809 by John Smith, with later additions by William Smith. This symmetrical building features two storeys and an attic, with three bays. It is constructed from coursed granite rubble with some snecking and has painted granite dressings. The central doorway has multi-pane glazing, while the ground floor has 12-pane top-opening windows and the first floor has 12-pane casement windows, some of which include bulls-eye glass. A central piended dormer protrudes from the eaves.

The left gable is harled, and the roof is covered with grey slate. There is a gable-end stack on the right, along with ashlar skews and skewputts, and clay cans.

Local climate

No 15 South Square, Footdee 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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