176 Skene Street, Aberdeen

172-173 Skene Street in Aberdeen is a mid-19th century, two-storey and attic terrace consisting of 12 bays that form six two-bay houses. The exterior is made of tooled granite rubble, with finely finished margins, a base course, and pilastered timber doorways. Each house features a panelled timber door with two-pane fanlights, projecting cills, an eaves course, and predominantly canted piend-roofed dormers on the attic floor.

On the northwest (principal) elevation, houses 172 and 173 and 174 and 175 are arranged in two mirrored pairs of four bays. The ground floor has doorways in the centre bays, flanked by single windows in the outer bays, with regular fenestration on the first floors. The outer bays of the attic floor feature single canted dormers, with skylights in between, while No 175 has modern rectangular dormers. No 176 has an asymmetrical design with a doorway to the left on the ground floor, a single window to the right, regular fenestration on the first floor, and two canted dormers in the attic. No 178 shows regular fenestration on the ground and first floors, with two canted dormers in the attic and a doorway on the southwest elevation.

The southwest elevation is gabled with a central doorway on the ground floor and the rest is blank. The southeast elevation has irregular openings and doorways, along with a variety of dormers in the attic. The northeast elevation is also gabled, featuring a small window at the centre of the ground and first floors.

The terrace includes a variety of timber sash and case windows, with some modern glazing, except for No 176. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a lead ridge, with coped gableheads and ridge stacks that have circular cans, as well as coped stone skews with blocked skewputts and cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen in 2000. The boundary walls consist of low granite walls on the northwest side.