20 Rubislaw Den North, Aberdeen is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 June 1992. House. 1 related planning application.

20 Rubislaw Den North, Aberdeen

WRENN ID
former-tallow-sparrow
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Constituency
Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 June 1992
Type
House
Address
20 Rubislaw Den North, Aberdeen, AB15 4AN
OS grid reference
NJ 917 060
Coordinates
57.14494, -2.13779
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

20 Rubislaw Den North is a villa built in 1906 by John Henderson. It is two storeys high with an attic and features three bays. The building is constructed from tooled coursed grey granite, with contrasting light grey dressings on the south elevation, while the rest is made of coursed rubble. It has a rough-faced base course, projecting cills, a dividing string course, and overhanging eaves.

The south elevation is asymmetrical, with a central doorway on the ground floor that has a panelled timber door with glazed upper panels and a letterbox fanlight, accessed by stone steps. Above this, there is a single window on the first floor. To the right, there is a five-light canted window on the ground floor, which has a parapet forming a balcony above with a tripartite window on the first floor. To the left, there is a piend-roofed bay that projects forward, featuring a tripartite window on the ground floor and a bipartite window on the first floor.

The east elevation is blank and has a gablet detail at the wallhead stack. The north elevation is mostly not visible due to a conservatory addition on the left. The west elevation includes a large round-arched stair window near the centre, with irregular fenestration elsewhere, a gablet detail at the wallhead stack on the right, and a single storey and attic wing on the outer left.

Most windows have been replaced with PVCu. The roof is piended and covered with grey slate, featuring lead ridges. The gablehead stacks are corniced with circular cans, and there are cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen in 2000. The property also has square-plan gatepiers to the south, topped with shallow pyramidal caps, and low coped walls between them, with rubble walls making up the remainder of the boundary.

Local climate

20 Rubislaw Den North, 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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