Kepplestone House, 179 Queen's Road, Aberdeen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 May 1977. House.

Kepplestone House, 179 Queen's Road, Aberdeen

WRENN ID
tall-tower-khaki
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Constituency
Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 May 1977
Type
House
OS grid reference
NJ 910 052
Coordinates
57.13827, -2.14962
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Kepplestone House is an 18th century building located at 179 Queen's Road in Aberdeen, which features a wing added by Dr A Marshall Mackenzie. The house is two storeys high and has three bays, constructed from undressed granite rubble. It has a fillet eaves-course and band-courses, with a piended slated roof that is set back from the wall-head. There are two Victorian bay windows, and both the original and Victorian parts of the house boast good interiors.

Local climate

Kepplestone House, 179 Queen's Road, 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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