8 Market Square, Stonehaven is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 1980.
8 Market Square, Stonehaven
- WRENN ID
- tattered-footing-grain
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1980
- Address
- 8 Market Square, Stonehaven, AB39 2BT
- OS grid reference
- NO 874 858
- Coordinates
- 56.9636, -2.20881
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
9 Market Square in Stonehaven is a tall, two-storey and attic, three-bay terraced shop and flats, rebuilt around 1875. It features stone-finialled pedimented windowheads and is known as the birthplace of Robert William Thomson. The building is constructed of ashlar stone, with some areas stugged, and includes cill courses and architraved openings above ground level. The first floor has decorative margins and incised windowheads, with stone mullions and stop-chamfered arrises.
The principal elevation is symmetrical above ground. On the right side at ground level, there is a central shop entrance framed by stone dividing piers and a bracketed corniced fascia to the right. A panelled timber door with a plate glass fanlight is located immediately to the left of centre, featuring a brass plaque that reads: 'THE BIRTHPLACE OF ROBERT WILLIAM THOMSON / THE INVENTOR OF THE PNEUMATIC TYRE / BORN 29TH JUNE 1822 / DIED 8TH MARCH 1873'. To the left, there is another shop with a door on the right and a fixed display window on the left.
The first floor and attic have a single window in the centre and bipartite windows in the flanking bays, with the attic windows featuring blind quatrefoils in their pediments, which break the wallhead into the first floor. The glazing patterns consist of four-pane and plate glass in timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slates and has a terracotta ridge. There are cavetto-coped ashlar stacks with a full complement of polygonal cans, as well as ashlar-coped skews adorned with decorative skewputts and finials.
Local climate
8 Market Square, Stonehaven receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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