Fairview, Inchgarth Road, Aberdeen is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Engine house.
Fairview, Inchgarth Road, Aberdeen
- WRENN ID
- inner-spindle-indigo
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Constituency
- Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- Type
- Engine house
- OS grid reference
- NJ 897 027
- Coordinates
- 57.11515, -2.17051
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Fairview is a single-storey, classical former engine house located on Inchgarth Road in Aberdeen. Designed by William Smith, it was built in 1864 for Aberdeen Water Works and has since been converted into residential use. The listing excludes the single-storey and attic cottage situated at the rear.
The former engine house features a symmetrical design with a full-width pedimented gable on the entrance elevation. Constructed from coursed, Aberdeen-bonded granite, it showcases bull-faced quoins and a moulded cornice in the pediment. The building includes a base course, a band course, and a cornice. The southeast entrance elevation has a central two-leaf timber door topped by a three-light fanlight and a consoled cornice above. This door is flanked by windows, with two window openings on each side elevation.
The windows predominantly feature a four-pane glazing pattern set in timber sash and case frames. The roof is covered with grey slates and includes a tall central roof vent and gable chimney stacks.
Surrounding the property is a rubble boundary wall with triangular coping, complemented by a pair of bull-faced, capped gatepiers to the east.
Local climate
Fairview, Inchgarth Road, Aberdeen receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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