Persley Castle Nursing Home, Woodside House, Mugiemoss Road, Aberdeen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1967. House. 7 related planning applications.

Persley Castle Nursing Home, Woodside House, Mugiemoss Road, Aberdeen

WRENN ID
distant-porch-rye
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Constituency
Aberdeen North MP: Kirsty Blackman (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 January 1967
Type
House
Address
Persley Castle Nursing Home, Woodside House, Mugiemoss Road, Aberdeen, AB21 9XU
OS grid reference
NJ 911 096
Coordinates
57.17769, -2.14767
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Persley Castle Nursing Home, also known as Woodside House, was built shortly before 1797 for Gordon Baron and Co. It is a two-storey structure made of squared rubble in large courses. The building features advanced end bays with pepper-pot turrets and a three-storey crenellated centre tower that has a four-centred arch with a cavetto splay. Originally, it served as a dormitory for calico printing apprentices at Woodside Works.

Local climate

Persley Castle Nursing Home, Woodside House, Mugiemoss Road, Aberdeen receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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