56 Marischal Street, Aberdeen is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1967. Townhouse.

56 Marischal Street, Aberdeen

WRENN ID
kindled-casement-thunder
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Constituency
Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 January 1967
Type
Townhouse
OS grid reference
NJ 945 061
Coordinates
57.14653, -2.09201
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

56 Marischal Street is a symmetrical townhouse built between 1789 and 1821. It is two stories high and has three bays, situated on a sloping site. The building is constructed from grey granite ashlar and features an eaves band. The central bay has a slightly recessed doorway with a timber panelled door and a rectangular fanlight above. There are two tripartite canted piended dormers on the roof. The rear elevation is four stories tall and has irregularly placed windows.

The windows are 12-pane timber sash and case style. The roof is covered with grey slate, and there is a red brick stack on the left gable with granite ashlar facing. The building also has clay cans and recessed cast-iron rainwater goods.

Local climate

56 Marischal Street, 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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