Air Raid Shelter, 81-3 Westburn Road, Aberdeen is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 March 1996. Air raid shelter.
Air Raid Shelter, 81-3 Westburn Road, Aberdeen
- WRENN ID
- vacant-outpost-elder
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Constituency
- Aberdeen North MP: Kirsty Blackman (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1996
- Type
- Air raid shelter
- OS grid reference
- NJ 930 068
- Coordinates
- 57.15254, -2.11713
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a single-storey, rectangular-plan air raid shelter built around 1940 during World War II. The walls are made of pre-cast concrete blocks, and it has a flat roof made of reinforced concrete that was cast in place. Inside, there are built-in benches and a stove pipe.
Local climate
Air Raid Shelter, 81-3 Westburn Road, 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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