Murtle House, Aberdeen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Country house.
Murtle House, Aberdeen
- WRENN ID
- swift-stone-twilight
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Constituency
- Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- Type
- Country house
- OS grid reference
- NJ 872 014
- Coordinates
- 57.10375, -2.21159
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Murtle House, built in 1823, is a country house designed by Archibald Simpson in a Greek Revival style for John Thorburn. In 1891, Alexander Marshall Mackenzie made additions to the property. The house is two storeys with a basement and has a stucco finish, forming a roughly H-shaped layout.
The front and rear of Murtle House feature flanking wings that are two bays wide and topped with pediments. The east elevation, which serves as the entrance, includes a pilastrade and a central doorpiece with a pediment. The west elevation is highlighted by a low-domed portico in the Greek Doric style.
Attached to the north end of Murtle House is a single-storey, irregular-plan community hall known as Camphill Hall, built between 1961 and 1962 and designed by Gabor Tallo. This Modernist structure is made of rendered brick and has a sweeping roof. Inside, it contains a large rhomboid auditorium with a stage, a semi-circular chapel to the west, and various ancillary spaces.
At the time of its listing in 1971, the interior of Murtle House had been completely redesigned, with only the Treatment Room remaining from the original layout. The 1962 hall features Expressionist stained glass by Hermann Gross and decorative timberwork.
Local climate
Murtle House, Aberdeen receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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