Junior Ranks' Club, Gordon Barracks, Bridge Of Don, Aberdeen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 March 1991. Mess building.
Junior Ranks' Club, Gordon Barracks, Bridge Of Don, Aberdeen
- WRENN ID
- last-truss-briar
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Constituency
- Aberdeen North MP: Kirsty Blackman (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1991
- Type
- Mess building
- OS grid reference
- NJ 947 099
- Coordinates
- 57.1801, -2.08817
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Junior Ranks' Club at Gordon Barracks in Bridge of Don, Aberdeen, was designed by J and W Wittet around 1935. This two-storey, nine-bay mess building features a symmetrical design with baronial detailing. It is constructed from pinned squared granite rubble with finely tooled ashlar dressings and long and short quoins in a lighter colour, along with a rock-faced plinth. The building has multi-pane sash and case windows and a slate roof.
The central three bays are taller and set forward, with the middle bay featuring a bold canted window at the ground level and a crenellated parapet above. A grand tripartite display of Royal coated arms sits above, complete with pediment detail to the centre light. The corners of the building are accentuated with corbelled angle bartizans. The outer wings are lower and include porches that are set into the re-entrant angles. All gables are crowstepped. At the rear, there are two wings, one built around 1960, which infills a court area.
Local climate
Junior Ranks' Club, Gordon Barracks, Bridge Of Don, 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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