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

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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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