Boundary Marker 'Alpha', North Esplanade West, Aberdeen is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 January 1967. Historical marker.

Boundary Marker 'Alpha', North Esplanade West, Aberdeen

WRENN ID
vast-flue-root
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Constituency
Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
21 January 1967
Type
Historical marker
OS grid reference
NJ 943 052
Coordinates
57.13849, -2.09485
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Boundary Marker 'Alpha' is a small rectangular granite March Stone dating from around 1790. It is located against the side of a concrete bridge at the mouth of Ferryhill Burn. The stone features a tooled chamfered angle that reads "A ABD CR," which stands for City Royalty.

Local climate

Boundary Marker 'Alpha', North Esplanade West, 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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