23 Rubislaw Den South, 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.
23 Rubislaw Den South, Aberdeen
- WRENN ID
- iron-soffit-sorrel
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Constituency
- Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1992
- Address
- 23 Rubislaw Den South, Aberdeen, AB15 4BD
- OS grid reference
- NJ 918 057
- Coordinates
- 57.14237, -2.13698
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
25 Rubislaw Den South, including boundary walls, is a double villa built around 1900 by Arthur Clyne. It features two mirrored houses, each two stories high with an attic and four bays. The exterior is made of rough-faced granite, finely finished at the edges of the main elevation, with grey granite on the ground floor and pink granite on the first floor. The rest of the building is constructed from Aberdeen-bond rubble. There is a base course, a ground floor cill course, and a tooled dividing band course that forms the cill course for the first floor.
The north elevation is symmetrical, featuring two doorways in the center bays of the ground floor. These doorways have sunken fillets below the lintels and are flanked by pilastered timber doors with panels and glazed panels, along with letterbox fanlights. Above each doorway, there is a window on the first floor. The outer left and right bays have shallow rectangular tripartite windows with banded rustication on both the ground and first floors, and parapets that break the eaves. The attic features bipartite flat-roofed dormers above, with skylights between the central bays.
The west elevation is asymmetrical and gabled, with a window in the center of the first floor and a single-storey wing adjoining the right side of the ground floor. The south elevation was not visible in 2000. The east elevation is also asymmetrical and gabled, with a window in the center of the first floor and a single-storey wing adjoining the left side of the ground floor.
The villa predominantly has 2-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is grey slate with decorative terracotta ridges, stone skews with blocked skewputts, and coped gablehead and wallhead stacks that break the pitch, featuring circular cans. The rainwater goods are made of cast iron.
The boundary walls consist of low coped Aberdeen bond granite walls to the north and rubble walls for the remainder.
Local climate
23 Rubislaw Den South, 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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