Fountain, Victoria Park, Westburn, Aberdeen is a Grade A listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 March 1984. Fountain.

Fountain, Victoria Park, Westburn, Aberdeen

WRENN ID
gentle-porch-larch
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Constituency
Aberdeen North MP: Kirsty Blackman (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 March 1984
Type
Fountain
OS grid reference
NJ 927 067
Coordinates
57.1519, -2.12225
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The fountain in Victoria Park, Westburn, Aberdeen, was designed by J B Pirie and completed in 1878. It is an octagonal structure made of granite ashlar, situated in the center of a large circular pool. The principal basin has a battered design, featuring a band of rough-faced stone that rises with tooled monograms and symbols just below the coping. At each corner of the octagon, there are small stylised flower basins that spout water. The shaft of the central spout is decorated with Greek motifs and stylised flowers, arranged in four diminishing tiers, with the upper two tiers made of copper.

Local climate

Fountain, Victoria Park, Westburn, Aberdeen receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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