2 Rubislaw Den North, Aberdeen is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 June 1992. 3 related planning applications.
2 Rubislaw Den North, Aberdeen
- WRENN ID
- roaming-tallow-merlin
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Constituency
- Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1992
- Address
- 2 Rubislaw Den North, Aberdeen, AB15 4AN
- OS grid reference
- NJ 918 059
- Coordinates
- 57.14478, -2.1355
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
4 Rubislaw Den North, including its boundary walls, is a double villa built around 1880, possibly by Matthews and Mackenzie. The building is two stories high with an attic and features four bays. It is constructed from rough-faced coursed grey granite, with finely finished margins, a rough-faced base course, a dividing band course, and overhanging eaves adorned with timber bargeboards.
The southeast elevation consists of four bays that form two mirrored houses. It has broad doorways in the center of the ground floor, featuring pilastered panelled timber doors flanked by glazed panels and letterbox fanlights. Above these doors are windows in the center of the first floor. The outer left and right bays are gableted and include a three-light canted window spanning both the ground and first floors. The attic features skylights, with modern skylights added to 2 Rubislaw Den North.
The northeast elevation, facing Forest Road, is asymmetrical. It has a three-light canted window to the right on the ground floor and a bipartite window above it on the first floor. A gabled bay is advanced to the left, with a pair of narrow windows that have panelled aprons on both the ground and first floors.
The northwest elevation is nearly symmetrical, with single-storey and attic wings advanced at the center bays, flanked by near-regular window arrangements. The outer left and right bays are gabled.
The southwest elevation is also asymmetrical, featuring a three-light canted window to the left on the ground floor and a bipartite window above it on the first floor. A gabled bay is advanced to the right, accompanied by a pair of narrow windows with panelled aprons on both the ground and first floors.
The villa predominantly has two-pane timber sash and case windows, with decoratively leaded upper sashes on the northeast elevation of 4 Rubislaw Den North. The roof is piended and gabled, covered with grey slate and lead ridges, and features coped gableheads and stacks that break the pitch, with circular cans. The rainwater goods are made of cast iron.
The interiors were not seen in 2000. The boundary walls consist of low coped Aberdeen bond granite walls on the southeast and northeast sides, with rubble walls on the remaining sides.
Local climate
2 Rubislaw Den North, 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 — 3 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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