Smokehouses, Palmerston Road is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 March 2006.

Smokehouses, Palmerston Road

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Constituency
Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 March 2006
OS grid reference
NJ 943 055
Coordinates
57.14078, -2.09571
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The smokehouses on Palmerston Road date from probably the early to mid 20th century and have been altered. There are three large, rectangular brick smokehouses, each featuring full-width raised ridge ventilators, located within a complex of contemporary and later fish houses.

Smoke House 1 is a red brick smokehouse or kiln with a corrugated roof that rises into a full-width flat-topped ventilator, which has mostly blocked louvres. It has brick or ashlar-coped skews with flat skewputts.

Smoke House 2 is also a red brick smokehouse or kiln, with a corrugated roof leading to a full-width gabletted ventilator that includes blocked louvres and a slate roof. The west elevation features a single-storey lean-to roof at ground level, with six openings above it. The skews are brick or ashlar-coped.

Smoke House 3 combines red brick and concrete block in its construction, featuring a corrugated roof that rises into a full-width ventilator with gabletted ends, blocked louvres, and corrugated capping. It has ashlar-coped skews with block skewputts.

The interiors were not seen in 2005.

Local climate

Smokehouses, Palmerston Road 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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