Former School To South Of St Andrews Cathedral, King Street is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 July 2007. School.

Former School To South Of St Andrews Cathedral, King Street

WRENN ID
gentle-hearth-swallow
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Constituency
Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 July 2007
Type
School
OS grid reference
NJ 944 064
Coordinates
57.14882, -2.09277
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The former Episcopalian School, designed by Alexander Ellis and dated 1865, is a two-storey, six-bay building with a roughly T-plan layout. It is located behind King Street, adjacent to St Andrews Cathedral. The exterior features coursed and snecked granite rubble, with dry dash finishes on the east and south sides. There is a later, lower extension added in the 20th century at the southeast re-entrant angle.

The north elevation includes a six-panel timber entrance door on the far left, topped by a tall four-light fanlight. A central commemorative plaque is present, along with a decorative date plaque below it. The building predominantly has 24-pane timber windows, characterized by prominent timber mullions and transoms on the ground floor. The upper storey features bipartite, round-arched multi-pane casement windows. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are cast-iron rainwater goods, along with coped gable and ridge stacks, as well as coped skews and skew-putts.

Inside, the original room layout remains largely intact, consisting of two large rooms with an open-frame timber roof. There are some Classical-style fire surrounds, timber flooring, and a timber dog-leg stair. The interior also features timber dado panelling, two and four-panel timber doors, and some smaller rooms separated by glass and timber screens.

Local climate

Former School To South Of St Andrews Cathedral, King Street 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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