159-161 King Street, Aberdeen is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 March 1984.
159-161 King Street, Aberdeen
- WRENN ID
- brooding-lantern-mint
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Constituency
- Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1984
- Address
- 159-161 King Street, Aberdeen, AB24 5AE
- OS grid reference
- NJ 943 067
- Coordinates
- 57.15136, -2.09437
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
169 King Street in Aberdeen is a mid to late 19th-century building consisting of a run of four, two-storey and attic townhouses, with a shop located at the ground level of Nos 163-167. The building is constructed from grey granite ashlar, with rubble at the rear. It features a string course and a blocking course, along with piended dormers. There is an elliptical arched opening leading to a pend at the far left of No 61. The shop front has a recessed entrance door, flanked by plate glass windows supported by narrow timber columns and topped with a consoled timber fascia.
The building displays a variety of window styles, including some four and twelve-pane timber sash and case windows, as well as some non-traditional windows. The roof above Nos 163-167 is a mansard style.
Local climate
159-161 King Street, Aberdeen 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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