St John's Well, Skene Row, Skene Street, Aberdeen is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 March 1984. Well.

St John's Well, Skene Row, Skene Street, Aberdeen

WRENN ID
turning-corridor-claret
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Constituency
Aberdeen North MP: Kirsty Blackman (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 March 1984
Type
Well
OS grid reference
NJ 935 063
Coordinates
57.14768, -2.10877
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St John's Well, located on Skene Row in Skene Street, Aberdeen, was rebuilt in 1852. It is a U-plan structure made of granite ashlar, featuring seats that step down from a coped rear wall. There is a low step surrounding a flagstone base, and a recessed panel in the back wall contains a tap that is backed by a Maltese cross. Above this, there is a tooled lintel that reads "SANCTI JOANNIS FONS AB OPERUM PUBLICORUM CURATORIBUS REFECTUS A. D. M D CCCLII".

Local climate

St John's Well, Skene Row, Skene 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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