Orchard Cottage, Spital Walk, Aberdeen is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1985. House. 3 related planning applications.

Orchard Cottage, Spital Walk, Aberdeen

WRENN ID
woven-threshold-coral
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Constituency
Aberdeen North MP: Kirsty Blackman (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 December 1985
Type
House
Address
Orchard Cottage, Spital Walk, Aberdeen, AB24 3HN
OS grid reference
NJ 940 078
Coordinates
57.16162, -2.10059
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Orchard Cottage is a two-storey, three-bay house built between 1818 and 1819, integrated into the garden walls. The exterior is harled over granite rubble and features shallow brick arches. The front has a central door flanked by two windows, with three additional windows on the first floor. At the rear, there is a stone window, with a smaller window to the right at ground level and a taller window above, all of which are sash and case style, primarily with a 12-pane glazing pattern. The house has a pitched slate roof with end stacks and includes a flat-roofed addition on the right side.

Local climate

Orchard Cottage, Spital Walk, Aberdeen receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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