Whitehall Bowling Green Wall including piers, railings and gates, Hamilton Place, Aberdeen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 May 1977. Boundary wall. 2 related planning applications.
Whitehall Bowling Green Wall including piers, railings and gates, Hamilton Place, Aberdeen
- WRENN ID
- iron-corbel-khaki
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Constituency
- Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 May 1977
- Type
- Boundary wall
- Address
- Whitehall Bowling Green Wall including piers, railings and gates, Hamilton Place, Aberdeen, AB15 4AX
- OS grid reference
- NJ 924 062
- Coordinates
- 57.14743, -2.12701
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Whitehall Bowling Green walls, railings, and gates along the south side of Hamilton Place in Aberdeen were constructed between 1885 and 1886, likely designed by the architects Pirie and Clyne. The structure features a single course of rough-faced pink granite wall, accented with contrasting grey granite Aberdeen bond snecking and coping, sitting atop a rubble retaining wall that has a cement render.
The walls are topped with cast iron railings that have distinctive flower-like paterae finials. A central two-leaf gate, designed similarly to the railings, provides access to a small flight of granite steps. At each outer end of the walls, there are granite piers consisting of a grey granite shaft rising from a plinth, with a rough-faced pink granite neck topped by a scrolled capstone.
It is noted that the boundary walls returning to the southeast and southwest are excluded from the listing under Section 1 (4A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.
Local climate
Whitehall Bowling Green Wall including piers, railings and gates, Hamilton Place, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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