Aberdeen, Spa Street, Woolmanhill, Former Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Outbuilding And Stack, Boiler House is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 June 2014. Boiler house.

Aberdeen, Spa Street, Woolmanhill, Former Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Outbuilding And Stack, Boiler House

WRENN ID
distant-mantel-mist
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Constituency
Aberdeen North MP: Kirsty Blackman (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 June 2014
Type
Boiler house
OS grid reference
NJ 936 064
Coordinates
57.14891, -2.10626
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The former Aberdeen Royal Infirmary outbuilding and boiler house, likely designed by W & J Smith and Kelly with H Saxon Snell as consultant, was built between 1887 and 1897. This structure features a tall single-storey, four-bay rectangular plan boiler house alongside a lower rectangular-plan outbuilding, forming part of a significant 19th-century hospital complex in the city centre of Aberdeen. The building is constructed from Aberdeen bond, cherry-cocked granite and includes tall round-arched windows. The lower section to the left of the boiler house has a pair of segmental-arched openings, while the outbuilding to the right features a segmental-arched entrance on the street elevation. The outbuilding has a pitched slate roof with a raised glazed section, and there is a tall red-brick stack on a granite base located at the north-east corner of the boiler house.

Local climate

Aberdeen, Spa Street, Woolmanhill, Former Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Outbuilding And Stack, Boiler House 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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