Aberdeen, Spa Street, Woolmanhill, Former Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Archive Block (Former Laundry) is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 June 2014. Hospital block.
Aberdeen, Spa Street, Woolmanhill, Former Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Archive Block (Former Laundry)
- WRENN ID
- graven-remnant-pigeon
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Constituency
- Aberdeen North MP: Kirsty Blackman (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 June 2014
- Type
- Hospital block
- OS grid reference
- NJ 936 065
- Coordinates
- 57.14979, -2.10648
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The former laundry block of the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, located on Spa Street in Woolmanhill, was designed by W & J Smith and Kelly, with H Saxon Snell as the consultant, and built between 1887 and 1897. This five-storey building features a compact yet tall and irregular plan, with chamfered corners. It is part of a significant 19th-century hospital complex in the city center of Aberdeen. The exterior is constructed of coursed granite and includes segmental-arched openings at the ground floor. The north side has tall first-floor windows with 24-pane glazing set in timber frames, while the rest of the building predominantly features 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case frames. The roof is covered with slate and has wallhead stacks supported by scrolled buttresses.
Inside, as observed in 2013, there is a stone cantilevered staircase and a single room on each floor, which is supported by iron columns and beams.
Local climate
Aberdeen, Spa Street, Woolmanhill, Former Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Archive Block (Former Laundry) 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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