Description

Later 18th century. 3-storey and attic, 3-bay commercial and residential building. Roughly finished Loanhead granite ashlar. Later shopfront to ground; pend to right. Regular fenestration to 1st and 2nd floors; pair of tripartite canted dormers.

4-pane glazing to timber sash and case windows. Steeply pitched roof; grey slate; ashlar stack to right gable end; brick stack abuts neighbouring stack to left; straight skews; cast-iron rainwater goods.

Statement of Interest

A good example of late 18th century townhouse with ground floor shop in this part of Aberdeen, with similar granite to that used throughout Marischal Street (Aberdeen's most important Classical thoroughfare). Nos 44 and 46 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.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56625249

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
• 
  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair