Hotel Metro, 17-19 Market Street, Aberdeen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1967. Former Mechanics' Institute. 3 related planning applications.
Hotel Metro, 17-19 Market Street, Aberdeen
- WRENN ID
- eastward-bastion-aspen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Constituency
- Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Former Mechanics' Institute
- Address
- Hotel Metro, 17-19 Market Street, Aberdeen, AB11 5PY
- OS grid reference
- NJ 942 061
- Coordinates
- 57.14656, -2.09654
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Hotel Metro, located at 17-19 Market Street in Aberdeen, is a 2-storey, 5-bay classical building designed by Archibald Simpson and William Ramage in 1845. Originally a Mechanics' Institute, it features a distinctive central pedimented Doric-columned tripartite window. The exterior is constructed of grey granite ashlar, showcasing channelled rustication around the central advanced round-arched entrance. The building includes string courses, a black-painted frieze that reads 'METRO HOTEL & RESTAURANT', a dentilled cornice, and a blocking course. There is some round-arched arcading at the ground level, particularly at the public bar on the right, while the left side has an altered public bar front. The upper storey has tall window openings with cornices and Doric-pilastered architraves.
The upper storey features plate glass timber sash and case windows, while the ground level has non-traditional glazing. Gable stacks are present on the roof. The interior has not been fully inspected as of 2006 but is believed to have been modernised.
Local climate
Hotel Metro, 17-19 Market 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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