Garden Walls And Gate Pillars, 81 High Street, Old Aberdeen, Aberdeen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1967. Garden walls. 2 related planning applications.

Garden Walls And Gate Pillars, 81 High Street, Old Aberdeen, Aberdeen

WRENN ID
calm-pier-bracken
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Constituency
Aberdeen North MP: Kirsty Blackman (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 January 1967
Type
Garden walls
Address
Garden Walls And Gate Pillars, 81 High Street, Old Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 3EH
OS grid reference
NJ 939 083
Coordinates
57.16613, -2.10236
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The garden walls and gate pillars at 81 High Street in Old Aberdeen date from around 1780. They consist of four piers made of ashlar granite topped with ball finials. The garden walls are constructed from stone and old brickwork, and there is a dummy lodge feature included in the design.

Local climate

Garden Walls And Gate Pillars, 81 High Street, Old Aberdeen, 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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