List of Category A structures in Aberdeen

Aberdeen in Scotland

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.

list

photo	designation	location	Dating	description	ID
More pictures	Lidell's Monument	Dyce (card)		Memorial to Duncan Lidell (1561–1613) from the 17th century	LB2230
More pictures	Parish church of Dyce with churchyard and guard house	Dyce (card)	1299	Church from the 13th / 14th centuries Century, changed a lot	LB2245
More pictures	Culter House (St. Margaret's School for Girls boarding school)	Peterculter (map)	1650	17th century country house	LB15714
More pictures	Shakkin 'Briggie (St. Devenick's Bridge, Morrison's Bridge)	Cults (map)	1837	Suspension bridge, pedestrian bridge	LB15733
More pictures	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
More pictures	Former St Nicholas Congregational Church	Belmont Street (map)	1865	Romanesque chapel	LB19937
More pictures	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
More pictures	Greyfriars Church	Broad Street (map)	1903	Gothic Church by Alexander Marshall Mackenzie	LB19941
More pictures	Kings College Chapel	College Bounds, Old Aberdeen (map)	1500	Chapel, started 1500	LB19943
More pictures	Aberdeen Arts Center	King Street (map)	1830	Former Greek Revival style church by John Smith	LB19946
More pictures	Queen's Cross Church	Carden Place (map)	1881	Idiosyncratic Victorian Gothic Church by John Bridgeford Pirie of Pirie and Clyne	LB19948
More pictures	St. Andrew's (Episcopal) Cathedral	King Street (map)	1817	Gothic cathedral by Archibald Simpson	LB19953
More pictures	St Machar's Cathedral	The Chanonry (Map)	14th Century	14th century cathedral with later additions and alterations	LB19957
	Episcopal Convent and Chapel of St. Margaret of Scotland	17 hospital (card)	1898	Ninian Comper Gothic Complex	LB19961
More pictures	St Mary's Church (Episcopal)	Carden Place (map)	1864	Victorian Gothic Church	LB19964
	St. Nicholas' Church	Union Street (map)	1755	Medieval church, extensively rebuilt by James Gibbs in 1755 and Archibald Simpson in 1837	LB19966
More pictures	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
More pictures	Advocates' Hall Concert Court	Broad Street (map)	1869	James Matthews classical concert hall	LB19977
More pictures	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	LB19978
More pictures	Custom House	35 Regent Quay (map)	18th century	Georgian town house	LB19982
More pictures	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
More pictures	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	LB19990
More pictures	Music Hall	174-194 Union Street (map)	1820	Music hall in the style of Archibald Simpson's Greek Revival	LB19991
More pictures	Old Aberdeen Town House	High Street, Old Aberdeen (map)	18th century	18th century town house	LB19992
More pictures	Woolmanhill Hospital	Woolmanhill (map)	1840	Archibald Simpson Neoclassical Hospital , later additions from the 19th century	LB19995
More pictures	Mercat Cross	Castle Street (map)	1650	Mercat cross , later relocated and repaired	LB19999
More pictures	Bishop Elphinstone Memorial	King's College Grounds , College Bounds, Old Aberdeen (map)	1926	Memorial to William Elphinstone (1431-1514)	LB20005
More pictures	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
More pictures	Brig o 'Balgownie (Old Bridge Of Don)	Bridge of Don (map)		14th century bridge, attributed to Richard Cementarius	LB20067
More pictures	Bridge of Dee	Stonehaven Road and Anderson Drive South, Ruthrieston (map)	early 16th century	Bridge over the River Dee from the early 16th century	LB20068
More pictures	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
More pictures	Girdleness Lighthouse	Greyhope Road (map)	1833	Robert Stevenson lighthouse with foghorn from the late 18th century	LB20078
More pictures	Former Old Town School	Little Belmont Street (map)	1841	School of John Smith , Greek Revival Architecture	LB20082
More pictures	Robert Gordon's College	Schoolhill (map)	1732	William Adam School Building	LB20088
More pictures	Marischal College	Broad Street (map)	1844	Archibald Simpson's Tudor Gothic College , Aberdeen's largest granite building	LB20096
	Devanha House	12, 14 Devanha Gardens, Ferryhill (map)	1820	Early 19th century mansion, expanded by Archibald Simpson in 1840	LB20098
More pictures	Westburn House	Westburn Park , Westburn Road and Cornhill Road (map)	1839	Brick house by Archibald Simpson	LB20108
More pictures	Provost Skene's House	Broad Street (map)		House of George Skene , Provost of Aberdeen, largely 17th century	LB20156
More pictures	Former Clydesdale Bank	5 Castle Street (map)	1842	Built as North of Scotland Bank, by Archibald Simpson	LB20162
More pictures	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
More pictures	Mitchell Hospital	9 The Chanonry, Old Aberdeen (Map)	1801	Courtyard of alms houses	LB20186
More pictures	Bede House	20, 22 Don Street, Old Aberdeen (map)	17th century	17th century town house	LB20288
More pictures	The Chapter House (Cruickshanks Lodgings)	245, 247 Don Street, Balgownie (Map)	17th century	17th century town house	LB20299
More pictures	The Northern Hotel	1 Great Northern Road (map)	1938	Art deco hotel, by AGR Mackenzie	LB20331
More pictures	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
More pictures	62, 62a and 62b Hamilton Place	(Map)	1885	Pirie and Clyne's villa	LB20334
More pictures	64, 64a, 66, 66a and 66b Hamilton Place	(Map)	1885	Pirie and Clyne's villa	LB20335
More pictures	68, 68a and 70 Hamilton Place	(Map)	1886	Villa by Pirie and Clyne, 1886	LB20336
More pictures	72 Hamilton Place	(Map)	1890	Villa of Pirie and Clyne, with a Provost Lamp (lantern)	LB20337
More pictures	74 and 76 Hamilton Place	(Map)	1887	Pirie and Clyne's villa	LB20338
More pictures	78 and 80 Hamilton Place	(Map)	c.1886	Pirie and Clyne's villa	LB20339
More pictures	82, 82a and 84 Hamilton Place	(Map)	c.1886	Pirie and Clyne's villa	LB20340
More pictures	86, 86a, 88 and 88a Hamilton Place	(Map)	1885	Pirie and Clyne's villa	LB20341
More pictures	90 and 92 Hamilton Place	(Map)	c.1886	Pirie and Clyne's villa	LB20342
More pictures	94, 94a and 96 Hamilton Place	(Map)	c.1886	Pirie and Clyne's villa	LB20343
More pictures	81 high street	Old Aberdeen (map)	late 18th century	Late 18th century town house	LB20360
More pictures	96 High Street	Old Aberdeen (map)	late 17th century	Town house from the early 17th century	LB20374
More pictures	50, 50a and 50b Queen's Road	(Map)	1887	Gothic villa by Pirie and Clyne	LB20459
More pictures	1-13 Rosemount Square	Rosemount (map)	1948	Meetinghouse designed in the 1930s and completed in 1948, the last granite tenement house in Aberdeen	LB20471
More pictures	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
More pictures	1, 2, 3 Union Terrace and 146 Union Street	(Map)	1885	Renaissance style office building by Alexander Marshall Mackenzie	LB20573
More pictures	His Majesty's Theater	Rosemount Viaduct (map)	1906	Theater building in a free Renaissance style by Frank Matcham	LB20605
More pictures	79 Hamilton Place	(Map)	1894	Pirie and Clyne's villa	LB20628
More pictures	98 Hamilton Place	(Map)	1891	Pirie and Clyne's villa	LB20629
More pictures	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	LB20673
	Turntable, Ferryhill Motive Power Depot	Polmuir Avenue, Ferryhill (map)	early 20th century	Early 20th century railway turntable , one of the few surviving in Scotland	LB43378
More pictures	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
More pictures	Crombie Halls of Residence	Meston Walk (map)	1960	Modernist student residence by Sir Robert Matthew , completed 1960	LB50016

Web links

Commons : Category A listed buildings in Aberdeen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{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 ). 
2. ↑ Scotland's Historic Environment Audit 2016. B1.4 Listed Buildings. Historic Scotland , p. 15 , accessed November 28, 2018 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Historic environment legislation in Scotland. Historic Scotland , accessed November 28, 2019 (All legal references page (as PDF)). 
4. ↑ ^{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 ). 
5. ↑ 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 ). 
6. ^ Broad Street, Provost Skene's House, including Archway and South Building. Historic Scotland, accessed November 29, 2018 . 
7. ↑ 48 and 50 Shiprow (Including Former House Of Provost Ross). Historic Scotland, accessed November 29, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Crombie Halls Of Residence, Meston Walk. Historic Scotland, accessed November 29, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Polmuir Avenue, Ferryhill Motive Power Depot, Locomotive Turntable. Historic Scotland, accessed November 29, 2018 . 
10. ^ Wellington Suspension Bridge Over River Dee, At Craiglug. Historic Scotland, accessed November 29, 2018 . 
11. ^ Guild Street And 1 Trinity Street, Tivoli Theater. Historic Scotland, accessed November 29, 2018 . 
12. ^ Maberly Street, Broadford Works With Returns To Ann Street And Hutcheon Street. Historic Scotland, accessed November 29, 2018 . 

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