No 8 North Square, Footdee is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1967.
No 8 North Square, Footdee
- WRENN ID
- under-pilaster-sable
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Constituency
- Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- OS grid reference
- NJ 957 059
- Coordinates
- 57.14415, -2.07153
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
No 13 North Square in Footdee is a terraced row of eight low, single-storey cottages built between 1808 and 1809 by John Smith. These cottages are arranged in three bays and are located next to a sea wall. They are constructed from coursed and snecked granite rubble, featuring a central doorway for each cottage flanked by windows that are set close to the eaves, all with granite dressings. The roof is low and sweeps down to a blank rear elevation.
The cottages showcase a variety of timber window types, with most being top-opening and some featuring multi-pane glazing. The roofs are predominantly covered with grey Scottish slates, which have a gentle curve on the seaward-facing pitch. There are non-traditional rooflights, and a mix of red brick and rubble ridge stacks, some of which are rendered. Wallhead stacks are present at the gable ends of Nos 8 and 15, along with skews and skewputts. Most of the cottages have clay cans throughout, and the rainwater goods are predominantly made of uPVC.
Local climate
No 8 North Square, Footdee 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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