Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

20 AND 22 UPPERKIRKGATELB20580

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
12/01/1967
Local Authority
Aberdeen
Planning Authority
Aberdeen
Burgh
Aberdeen
NGR
NJ 94147 6453
Coordinates
394147, 806453

Description

Early 19th century. 3-storey, 3-bay commercial and residential building with wide rectangular pend and shop to ground floor. Loanhead granite ashlar with strap pointing. Slightly recessed entrance to shop with astragalled rectangular fanlight above; flanked by large fixed-pane windows, astragalled at upper portion. Regular fenestration to upper floors. Entrance to pend now doorway to flatted units above (2006). Harled outshot to rear.

Replacement 12-pane plate glass timber sash and case windows at upper floors; grey slate; broad brick stack abutting attic level gable-end of adjoining building; ashlar skew to left gable; clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: Partly seen (2006). Fragments of stone spiral staircase in ground floor rear cupboard.

Statement of Special Interest

A good example of late 18th century townhouse with ground floor shop in this part of Aberdeen. Nos 20 and 22 Upperkirkgate is a good example of the tall narrow townhouse with shops to the ground floor which are characteristic of 18th and 19th century Aberdeen. The pend would have provided access to the stairs to upper levels at the rear and side of the building.

Upperkirkgate stands on the site of one of the city's many ancient gates, or 'ports'. However, 'gate' in this instance may have formerly been 'gait' meaning walk or way. Most of what is visible derives from the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but much evidence of earlier structures of previous centuries has been built into the later fabric. The buildings that lined the S side of the street were cleared from the 1930's onwards as part of a programme of slum clearances, and eventually to allow room for the civic buildings of the St Nicholas House development.

References

Bibliography

Aberdeen City Archives (Copy in Aberdeen Public Library) - Aberdeen Plans Committee Minutes, 22 April 1886; Chapman and Riley, 'The City and Royal Burgh of Aberdeen ' Survey and Plan (1949) p149; W A Brogden ' Aberdeen, An Illustrated Architectural Guide (1986) p37. Ranald MacInnes, The Aberdeen Guide (1992) p101. Further information courtesy of the owner.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

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