136, 138, 140 King Street, Aberdeen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1967. Tenement.
136, 138, 140 King Street, Aberdeen
- WRENN ID
- open-banister-dale
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Constituency
- Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Tenement
- OS grid reference
- NJ 944 066
- Coordinates
- 57.15106, -2.09379
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
136, 138, and 140 King Street in Aberdeen is an early 19th-century, three-storey and attic Classical tenement that includes shops on the ground floor. The building is constructed from grey granite ashlar, featuring some raised cill margins, a channelled finish at the ground level, and rubble at the rear. The ground floor has round-arched openings, with an impost course and a band course separating the ground and first storeys. The central entrance door leads to the flats, flanked by a pair of symmetrical shops.
The upper storeys predominantly feature 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The ground floor windows have a combination of plate glass and a multi-pane glazing pattern, complemented by fanlight glazing details. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there are gable stacks and raised skews.
Local climate
136, 138, 140 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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