24, 26 Upperkirkgate, Aberdeen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1967. Townhouse. 2 related planning applications.
24, 26 Upperkirkgate, Aberdeen
- WRENN ID
- keen-attic-moth
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Constituency
- Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Townhouse
- Address
- 24, 26 Upperkirkgate, Aberdeen, AB10 1BA
- OS grid reference
- NJ 941 064
- Coordinates
- 57.14885, -2.09847
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
24 and 26 Upperkirkgate in Aberdeen is a 3-storey, 3-bay townhouse dated 1694. The building features harled sandstone with finely tooled sandstone ashlar dressings on the first and second floors. It has large corbelled skewputts with sundials, likely from an earlier structure, and the fenestration is slightly offset above the entrance. The ground floor has a later shop frontage.
At the upper levels, there are 12-pane timber sash and case windows, and the roof is covered with grey slate. A broad harled ridge stack is located against the right gable-end of the adjoining building, along with clay cans and cast iron rainwater goods.
Inside, there is some 18th century pine panelling on the east wall of the ground floor, likely moved from the main first floor apartments. An exposed rubble arch, which is now blocked, probably formed part of a fireplace. The double attic space has early timber beams with signs of an earlier hoist system, including iron hooks attached to the beams at regular intervals. Additionally, there is a central well beneath the shop floor.
Local climate
24, 26 Upperkirkgate, 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
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