Fountain House, Garthdee Road, Aberdeen is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1994. Fountain house.

Fountain House, Garthdee Road, Aberdeen

WRENN ID
blind-finial-bracken
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Constituency
Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 1994
Type
Fountain house
OS grid reference
NJ 924 033
Coordinates
57.12134, -2.1256
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Fountain House, built around 1830, is a circular-section fountain house located on Garthdee Road in Aberdeen. It is constructed from grey granite ashlar and features machicolated coping. The building has a conical roof made of graded grey slates, topped with a ball finial at the apex. There is a timber door.

Local climate

Fountain House, Garthdee 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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