The Carlton, 31-32 Castle Street, Aberdeen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1967. 2 related planning applications.
The Carlton, 31-32 Castle Street, Aberdeen
- WRENN ID
- small-gargoyle-sage
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Constituency
- Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Address
- The Carlton, 31-32 Castle Street, Aberdeen, AB11 5BG
- OS grid reference
- NJ 945 063
- Coordinates
- 57.14815, -2.09201
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Post Office at 33-35 Castle Street in Aberdeen is an early 19th-century, three-storey and attic, six-bay Classical tenement situated on a corner site. The building features partly altered commercial premises on the ground floor, with some alterations made in 2006. It is constructed of grey granite ashlar, with rubble at the rear.
The ground floor has round-arched openings for Nos 31 and 32, with a central entrance. There is a band course above the ground floor, a cill course at the second storey, and a blocking course at the top. The Castle Street elevation includes four widely spaced small dormers, while the rear has larger dormers with pediments.
The first floor has plate glass windows, and the second floor features 12-pane timber sash and case windows, with plate glass windows on the ground floor. The roof is covered with grey slates, and it has raised skews, along with coped ridge and gable stacks.
Local climate
The Carlton, 31-32 Castle Street, 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 — 2 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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