Smoke House, Old Ford Road is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 March 2006. Smoke house.

Smoke House, Old Ford Road

WRENN ID
roaming-spandrel-smoke
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Constituency
Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 March 2006
Type
Smoke house
OS grid reference
NJ 943 053
Coordinates
57.13921, -2.09566
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The smoke house on Old Ford Road dates from the early to mid 20th century. It is a small, rectangular building constructed of brown brick, featuring a red clay pantile roof. The roof has a slate eaves easing course that leads to a full-width raised ridge ventilator, which includes louvred openings, gabletted ends, a slate roof, and three cowl ventilators at the apex.

On the northeast elevation, there is a door at ground level, while the area above is blank. The interior was not seen in 2005.

Local climate

Smoke House, Old Ford Road 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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