14 Union Grove, Aberdeen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 March 2001.
14 Union Grove, Aberdeen
- WRENN ID
- twisted-gravel-scarlet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Constituency
- Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 March 2001
- OS grid reference
- NJ 932 056
- Coordinates
- 57.1419, -2.11344
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a terrace of shops and offices built in 1887 by Matthews & Mackenzie and refurbished in the late 20th century. It occupies an L-shaped plan, with four storeys facing Holburn Street and three storeys plus an attic facing Union Grove. The building is constructed of finely finished, tooled coursed grey granite, with darker grey granite used for quoins and detailing.
The Holburn Street elevation is near-symmetrical with nine bays. The ground floor has fine detailing, including pilasters flanking openings and banded quoins. The upper floors feature architraved windows, deeply corniced band courses, and pilastered windows at the fourth floor, topped by a pierced parapet.
The Union Grove elevation is also near-symmetrical with fourteen bays and includes dormer windows in the attic. The ground floor incorporates modern shopfronts and panelled timber doors with letterbox fanlights.
The southeast (Holburn Street) elevation exhibits giant order pilasters to the outer bays of the first and second floors, with stylised Ionic capitals. A curved angle includes three-light canted windows on each floor. Variations in fenestration are seen across the remaining bays.
The northeast (side) elevation is asymmetrical and gabled. The northwest (rear) elevation is irregular with advanced stair bays and attic windows. The southwest (side) elevation is also asymmetrical and gabled, with a single window on each floor.
The building has predominantly two-pane PVCu sash and case windows, a grey slate mansard roof with lead ridges, stone skews with blocked skewputts, and coped gablehead, ridge, and wallhead stacks with circular cans. Modern PVCu rainwater goods are also present. The interiors were not inspected in 2000.
Boundary walls of coped granite rubble enclose the property, with a tooled ashlar niche set into the northwest wall, featuring a round-arched opening.
Local climate
14 Union Grove, 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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