Friendville Walled Gardens, Great Western Road, Aberdeen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1967. Garden wall. 2 related planning applications.

Friendville Walled Gardens, Great Western Road, Aberdeen

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Constituency
Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 January 1967
Type
Garden wall
Address
Friendville Walled Gardens, Great Western Road, Aberdeen, AB10 6NP
OS grid reference
NJ 918 046
Coordinates
57.13244, -2.13586
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Friendville Walled Gardens, located on Great Western Road in Aberdeen, date back to around 1773, with some 20th-century additions. The old garden wall is coped and constructed from rubble. Within the gardens, there is an extensive collection of interesting objects, including an 18th-century sundial and a R-doric tempietta topped with a dome made of wrought iron.

Local climate

Friendville Walled Gardens, Great Western Road, 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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