253 Don Street, Aberdeen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1967.

253 Don Street, Aberdeen

WRENN ID
mired-buttress-thunder
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Constituency
Aberdeen North MP: Kirsty Blackman (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 January 1967
Address
253 Don Street, Aberdeen, AB24 1XP
OS grid reference
NJ 940 096
Coordinates
57.17755, -2.10006
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Balgownie Hall Mission, located on Don Street in Aberdeen, dates back to 1884 and appears to have been remodeled. The building consists of a hall and a cottage, positioned gable to the street and featuring crowsteps. It is a single-storey structure with an attic and has two windows. The hall includes a gothic window with brick dressings, and the exterior is finished in stucco.

Local climate

253 Don Street, 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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