List of Category A structures in Aberdeen
This is a list of the Listed Buildings of Category A in Aberdeen , Scotland .
In Scotland, the term "Listed Building" refers to a building or similar structure that is officially identified as being of "particular architectural or historical interest". Category A monuments are "buildings of national or international importance, either because of their architecture or historical significance, or very beautiful, little-changed examples of specific epochs, styles or building types." The listing was started by a provision in the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act of 1947 and the current legal basis for listing is the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.
The listing is authorized by Historic Scotland , an administrative agency of the Scottish Government , which assumed this role in 1991 from the Scottish Development Department. Once recorded, strict restrictions apply to changes to the structure of a building or its furnishings. Permission must be obtained from the local authorities before any such change is made.
There were (as of March 2016) 47,288 Listed Buildings in Scotland. The share of architectural monuments in category A is around 7.7%.
In 2016 there were 71 Category A monuments in Aberdeen.
Much of Aberdeen's architecture was constructed from the signature local granite , which has led to the nickname "The Granite City".
During the first half of the 19th century Archibald Simpson (1790–1847) was the most famous architect in Aberdeen; he completed many of the city's most important public buildings.
Among the older structures are the medieval bridge Brig o 'Balgownie , the King's College Chapel and the oldest houses in the city Provost Skene's house , and Provost Ross house (1593).
Last in 2004, Sir Robert Matthew 's Crombie Halls of Residence , a university residential building , completed in 1960 , was included in Category A.
Other Category A structures include one of the few surviving railroad hubs , Wellington Bridge, an early suspension bridge designed by inventor and naval officer Captain Samuel Brown , the intact Victorian Tivoli Theater , and Scotland's oldest iron-framed mill building.
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Lidell's Monument |
Dyce (card) |
Memorial to Duncan Lidell (1561–1613) from the 17th century |
LB2230 |
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Parish church of Dyce with churchyard and guard house |
Dyce (card) |
1299 | Church from the 13th / 14th centuries Century, changed a lot |
LB2245 |
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Culter House (St. Margaret's School for Girls boarding school) |
Peterculter (map) |
1650 | 17th century country house |
LB15714 |
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Shakkin 'Briggie (St. Devenick's Bridge, Morrison's Bridge) |
Cults (map) |
1837 | Suspension bridge, pedestrian bridge |
LB15733 |
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Grandholm Works, Old Spinning Mill, Wing Mill, Engine and Turbine Houses | Grandholm Drive (map) |
1799 | Textile factory from the 18th / 19th centuries Century, the largest self-producing tweed factory in Scotland |
LB18985 |
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Former St Nicholas Congregational Church |
Belmont Street (map) |
1865 | Romanesque chapel |
LB19937 |
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Former Triple Kirks (East and Belmont Church and Albion and St Paul's Church) | 69-71 Schoolhill (map) |
1844 | Remains of three linked Gothic churches, by Archibald Simpson |
LB19940 |
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Greyfriars Church | Broad Street (map) |
1903 | Gothic Church by Alexander Marshall Mackenzie |
LB19941 |
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Kings College Chapel | College Bounds, Old Aberdeen (map) |
1500 | Chapel, started 1500 |
LB19943 |
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Aberdeen Arts Center | King Street (map) |
1830 | Former Greek Revival style church by John Smith |
LB19946 |
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Queen's Cross Church | Carden Place (map) |
1881 | Idiosyncratic Victorian Gothic Church by John Bridgeford Pirie of Pirie and Clyne |
LB19948 |
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St. Andrew's (Episcopal) Cathedral | King Street (map) |
1817 | Gothic cathedral by Archibald Simpson |
LB19953 |
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St Machar's Cathedral | The Chanonry (Map) |
14th Century | 14th century cathedral with later additions and alterations |
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Episcopal Convent and Chapel of St. Margaret of Scotland | 17 hospital (card) |
1898 | Ninian Comper Gothic Complex |
LB19961 |
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St Mary's Church (Episcopal) | Carden Place (map) |
1864 | Victorian Gothic Church |
LB19964 |
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St. Nicholas' Church | Union Street (map) |
1755 | Medieval church, extensively rebuilt by James Gibbs in 1755 and Archibald Simpson in 1837 |
LB19966 |
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St. Nicholas' Church Churchyard | Union Street, 9 Back Wynd, Schoolhill and Correction Wynd (map) |
16./17. century | 16th century cemetery with monuments from the 17th century |
LB19967 |
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Advocates' Hall Concert Court | Broad Street (map) |
1869 | James Matthews classical concert hall |
LB19977 |
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Aberdeen Art Gallery , War Memorial and Cowdray Hall, (Robert Gordon's Institute Of Technology) | 78 Schoolhill (map) |
1885 | Alexander Marshall Mackenzie Renaissance-style gallery , 1925 War Memorial added |
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Custom House | 35 Regent Quay (map) |
18th century | Georgian town house |
LB19982 |
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Medico-Surgical Hall and County Record Office | 27, 29, 31 King Street (map) |
1820, 1823, 1840 | Three interconnected buildings, consisting of Archibald Simpson's Medical-Surgical Hall (1820), John Smith's City Archives (1823), and (residential) house from 1840 |
LB19983 |
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Town House, including Municipal Offices, Court Houses and Tolbooth | Castle Street (map) |
17th century | 17th century municipal administration building with 19th century offices by Peddie & Kinnear |
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Music Hall | 174-194 Union Street (map) |
1820 | Music hall in the style of Archibald Simpson's Greek Revival |
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Old Aberdeen Town House | High Street, Old Aberdeen (map) |
18th century | 18th century town house |
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Woolmanhill Hospital | Woolmanhill (map) |
1840 | Archibald Simpson Neoclassical Hospital , later additions from the 19th century |
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Mercat Cross | Castle Street (map) |
1650 | Mercat cross , later relocated and repaired |
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Bishop Elphinstone Memorial |
King's College Grounds , College Bounds, Old Aberdeen (map) |
1926 | Memorial to William Elphinstone (1431-1514) |
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Fountain, Victoria Park | Westburn Road and Argyll Place, Rosemount (map) |
1878 | Granite fountain with details in the style of the Greek Revival by John Bridgeford Pirie of Pirie and Clyne |
LB20065 |
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Brig o 'Balgownie (Old Bridge Of Don) |
Bridge of Don (map) |
14th century bridge, attributed to Richard Cementarius |
LB20067 |
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Bridge of Dee | Stonehaven Road and Anderson Drive South, Ruthrieston (map) |
early 16th century | Bridge over the River Dee from the early 16th century |
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Wellington Suspension Bridge | Over River Dee, at Craiglug (map) |
1829 | An important example of an early suspension bridge, by Samuel Brown and John Smith |
LB20073 |
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Girdleness Lighthouse | Greyhope Road (map) |
1833 | Robert Stevenson lighthouse with foghorn from the late 18th century |
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Former Old Town School | Little Belmont Street (map) |
1841 | School of John Smith , Greek Revival Architecture |
LB20082 |
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Robert Gordon's College | Schoolhill (map) |
1732 | William Adam School Building |
LB20088 |
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Marischal College | Broad Street (map) |
1844 | Archibald Simpson's Tudor Gothic College , Aberdeen's largest granite building |
LB20096 |
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Devanha House | 12, 14 Devanha Gardens, Ferryhill (map) |
1820 | Early 19th century mansion, expanded by Archibald Simpson in 1840 |
LB20098 |
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Westburn House |
Westburn Park , Westburn Road and Cornhill Road (map) |
1839 | Brick house by Archibald Simpson |
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Provost Skene's House | Broad Street (map) |
House of George Skene , Provost of Aberdeen, largely 17th century |
LB20156 |
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Former Clydesdale Bank | 5 Castle Street (map) |
1842 | Built as North of Scotland Bank, by Archibald Simpson |
LB20162 |
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Sheriff Court Annex and High Court of Justiciary (formerly Bank of Scotland) | 53 Castle Street (map) |
1801 | Classical-style former bank, the first fully dressed granite ashlar building to be built in Aberdeen |
LB20174 |
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Mitchell Hospital | 9 The Chanonry, Old Aberdeen (Map) |
1801 | Courtyard of alms houses |
LB20186 |
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Bede House | 20, 22 Don Street, Old Aberdeen (map) |
17th century | 17th century town house |
LB20288 |
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The Chapter House (Cruickshanks Lodgings) | 245, 247 Don Street, Balgownie (Map) |
17th century | 17th century town house |
LB20299 |
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The Northern Hotel | 1 Great Northern Road (map) |
1938 | Art deco hotel, by AGR Mackenzie |
LB20331 |
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Tivoli Theater | 34-48 Guild Street (map) |
1872 | Rare example of a nearly intact Victorian theater, Charles J. Phipps , changes by Frank Matcham 1909 |
LB20333 |
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62, 62a and 62b Hamilton Place | (Map) | 1885 | Pirie and Clyne's villa |
LB20334 |
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64, 64a, 66, 66a and 66b Hamilton Place | (Map) | 1885 | Pirie and Clyne's villa |
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68, 68a and 70 Hamilton Place | (Map) | 1886 | Villa by Pirie and Clyne, 1886 |
LB20336 |
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72 Hamilton Place | (Map) | 1890 | Villa of Pirie and Clyne, with a Provost Lamp (lantern) |
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74 and 76 Hamilton Place | (Map) | 1887 | Pirie and Clyne's villa |
LB20338 |
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78 and 80 Hamilton Place | (Map) | c.1886 | Pirie and Clyne's villa |
LB20339 |
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82, 82a and 84 Hamilton Place | (Map) | c.1886 | Pirie and Clyne's villa |
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86, 86a, 88 and 88a Hamilton Place | (Map) | 1885 | Pirie and Clyne's villa |
LB20341 |
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90 and 92 Hamilton Place | (Map) | c.1886 | Pirie and Clyne's villa |
LB20342 |
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94, 94a and 96 Hamilton Place | (Map) | c.1886 | Pirie and Clyne's villa |
LB20343 |
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81 high street |
Old Aberdeen (map) |
late 18th century | Late 18th century town house |
LB20360 |
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96 High Street |
Old Aberdeen (map) |
late 17th century | Town house from the early 17th century |
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50, 50a and 50b Queen's Road | (Map) | 1887 | Gothic villa by Pirie and Clyne |
LB20459 |
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1-13 Rosemount Square |
Rosemount (map) |
1948 | Meetinghouse designed in the 1930s and completed in 1948, the last granite tenement house in Aberdeen |
LB20471 |
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Provost Ross's House | 48 and 50 Shiprow (map) |
a pair of late 16th century townhouses, once inhabited by Provost John Ross , now houses part of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum . |
LB20484 |
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1, 2, 3 Union Terrace and 146 Union Street | (Map) | 1885 | Renaissance style office building by Alexander Marshall Mackenzie |
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His Majesty's Theater | Rosemount Viaduct (map) |
1906 | Theater building in a free Renaissance style by Frank Matcham |
LB20605 |
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79 Hamilton Place | (Map) | 1894 | Pirie and Clyne's villa |
LB20628 |
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98 Hamilton Place | (Map) | 1891 | Pirie and Clyne's villa |
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Aberdeen Station | Guild Street (map) |
1920 | Station, completed in 1920, the last major station to be built in Scotland and a road bridge from the mid-19th century |
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Turntable, Ferryhill Motive Power Depot | Polmuir Avenue, Ferryhill (map) |
early 20th century | Early 20th century railway turntable , one of the few surviving in Scotland |
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Broadford Works | Maberly Street (map) |
early 19th century | Early 19th century mill, the oldest iron frame mill in Scotland and the fourth oldest in the world, with additions from the 19th and early 20th centuries |
LB43908 |
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Crombie Halls of Residence | Meston Walk (map) |
1960 | Modernist student residence by Sir Robert Matthew , completed 1960 |
LB50016 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b A Review of Existing Information for Scotland's Historic Environment Audit (SHEA). Annex 4. Listed Buildings. Historic Scotland , December 20, 2016, p. 79 , accessed November 28, 2018 ( ISBN 978-1-84917-013-0 ).
- ↑ Scotland's Historic Environment Audit 2016. B1.4 Listed Buildings. Historic Scotland , p. 15 , accessed November 28, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Historic environment legislation in Scotland. Historic Scotland , accessed November 28, 2019 (All legal references page (as PDF)).
- ↑ a b Figure 27: Possible headline indicators for Scotland's Historic Environment Audit. In: A Review of Existing Information for Scotland's Historic Environment Audit (SHEA). Historic Scotland , 200, p. 49 , accessed November 28, 2018 ( ISBN 978-1-84917-013-0 ).
- ↑ Figure 33. Number of listed buildings (and listing category) by local authority. Source: The State of Scotland's Historic Buildings, RGU, MLUI. In: A Review of Existing Information for Scotland's Historic Environment Audit (SHEA). Historic Scotland , 2006, p. 79 , accessed November 28, 2018 ( ISBN 978-1-84917-013-0 ).
- ^ Broad Street, Provost Skene's House, including Archway and South Building. Historic Scotland, accessed November 29, 2018 .
- ↑ 48 and 50 Shiprow (Including Former House Of Provost Ross). Historic Scotland, accessed November 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Crombie Halls Of Residence, Meston Walk. Historic Scotland, accessed November 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Polmuir Avenue, Ferryhill Motive Power Depot, Locomotive Turntable. Historic Scotland, accessed November 29, 2018 .
- ^ Wellington Suspension Bridge Over River Dee, At Craiglug. Historic Scotland, accessed November 29, 2018 .
- ^ Guild Street And 1 Trinity Street, Tivoli Theater. Historic Scotland, accessed November 29, 2018 .
- ^ Maberly Street, Broadford Works With Returns To Ann Street And Hutcheon Street. Historic Scotland, accessed November 29, 2018 .