16, 18 Upperkirkgate, Aberdeen is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1967. Commercial and residential building. 1 related planning application.
16, 18 Upperkirkgate, Aberdeen
- WRENN ID
- drifting-fireplace-root
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Constituency
- Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Commercial and residential building
- Address
- 16, 18 Upperkirkgate, Aberdeen, AB10 1BA
- OS grid reference
- NJ 941 064
- Coordinates
- 57.14894, -2.09829
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
16 and 18 Upperkirkgate is a tall and narrow four-storey building with an attic and basement, dating from the early 19th century, specifically between 1800 and 1820. Constructed from Loanhead granite ashlar, it features a cill course at the third floor. The ground floor houses a public house, which has an unusually tall and narrow round-arched entrance, flanked by large fixed-pane plate glass windows. To the far right bay, there is an entrance to Kirkgate Court, which serves as the main door to the residential properties above. The building also has a pair of later flat-roofed dormers.
The first and second floors are adorned with regular eight-pane timber sash and case windows that have horns, while the third floor features smaller four-pane openings. The steeply pitched roof is covered with grey slate and includes ashlar skews and skewputts, broad corniced ashlar stacks, and clay cans.
Local climate
16, 18 Upperkirkgate, 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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