Royal Insurance Company, 210 Union Street, 208, Aberdeen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1981. Corner building. 2 related planning applications.
Royal Insurance Company, 210 Union Street, 208, Aberdeen
- WRENN ID
- still-gable-mist
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Constituency
- Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1981
- Type
- Corner building
- Address
- Royal Insurance Company, 210 Union Street, 208, Aberdeen, AB10 1TL
- OS grid reference
- NJ 936 059
- Coordinates
- 57.14477, -2.10593
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Royal Insurance Company building, located at 210 Union Street and 208 Huntly Street in Aberdeen, is a late 19th century, three-storey corner structure featuring a canted angle bay. It has two bays facing Union Street and a return to Huntly Street, showcasing Renaissance architectural details. The ground floor is constructed of banded granite, while the upper floors are polished.
The ground floor features an arched opening with a cavetto moulding and keystone, along with one flat-headed door. A cornice runs above the ground floor. The angle and flanking bays are framed by giant Ionic engaged columns, with pedimented windows and pilasters flanking the outer bays, while the remaining windows are also keystoned.
Above, an entablature is supported by scrolled brackets, which hold an octagonal cupola. This cupola is framed in the Ionic order, featuring arched openings, and it supports a stone dome topped with a finial.
Local climate
Royal Insurance Company, 210 Union Street, 208, 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 — 2 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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