The Green Fountain, Castle Street, Aberdeen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 February 1989. Wellhead.

The Green Fountain, Castle Street, Aberdeen

WRENN ID
tattered-spire-crow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Constituency
Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 February 1989
Type
Wellhead
OS grid reference
NJ 944 063
Coordinates
57.14768, -2.09413
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Green Fountain on Castle Street in Aberdeen is a former wellhead, designed by William Lindsay around 1710. Although it is no longer functioning, it has been relocated from the east end of Castle Street. The fountain has a square plan and is topped with a small semi-nude male lead figure. It is constructed from coursed sandstone and features a base course and a deep cornice. At each corner of the cap, there are carved stone Green-man type heads that serve as spouts. Additionally, there is a small carved lion's head spout and a wrought iron lamp bracket on the east face, as well as a cast-iron hinged opening on the west face.

Local climate

The Green Fountain, Castle 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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