20, 22 Upperkirkgate, Aberdeen is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1967. Commercial and residential building. 2 related planning applications.
20, 22 Upperkirkgate, Aberdeen
- WRENN ID
- dark-rafter-linden
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Constituency
- Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Commercial and residential building
- Address
- 20, 22 Upperkirkgate, Aberdeen, AB10 1BA
- OS grid reference
- NJ 941 064
- Coordinates
- 57.14891, -2.09838
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
20 and 22 Upperkirkgate in Aberdeen is an early 19th-century, three-storey, three-bay building that serves both commercial and residential purposes. The structure features a wide rectangular pend and a shop on the ground floor, constructed from Loanhead granite ashlar with strap pointing. The shop entrance is slightly recessed and includes an astragalled rectangular fanlight above, flanked by large fixed-pane windows that have astragalled detailing in the upper portion. The upper floors display regular fenestration.
The entrance to the pend has been converted into a doorway leading to flatted units above, a change made in 2006. At the rear, there is a harled outshot. The upper floors have replacement 12-pane plate glass timber sash and case windows, and the roof is covered with grey slate. A broad brick stack is located at the attic level gable end of the adjoining building, with an ashlar skew on the left gable and clay cans present. The building also features cast-iron rainwater goods.
Inside, some elements were observed in 2006, including fragments of a stone spiral staircase located in a cupboard at the rear of the ground floor.
Local climate
20, 22 Upperkirkgate, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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