Union Bridge, Aberdeen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1967. Viaduct. 1 related planning application.
Union Bridge, Aberdeen
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Constituency
- Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Viaduct
- Address
- Union Bridge, Aberdeen, AB11 6BG
- OS grid reference
- NJ 939 061
- Coordinates
- 57.14581, -2.10142
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Union Bridge in Aberdeen is a viaduct that carries Union Street from Adelphi to Diamond Street. It was designed by Charles Abercrombie and others, constructed between 1800 and 1805, with significant widening work completed by William Dyack in 1905. The bridge features a single span segmental arch supported by tall, projecting, battered piers that have large central semicircular arched niches. The lower section of the abutments is made of coursed, tooled granite with deep channelled, rock-faced rustication, while the piers are finished with channelled ashlar. On the north side, there is a painted cast iron parapet with pierced panels, small columns, and alternating small leopard finials. Additionally, an open elliptical steel span arch was added to the north side between 1905 and 1908. The bridge underwent further alterations to the south in 1964.
Local climate
Union Bridge, 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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