18 Victoria Street, Aberdeen

18 Victoria Street in Aberdeen is a building designed by Archibald Simpson, begun in 1843. It consists of single-storey and attic cottages, with two bays for some and three bays for others, as well as a basement for Nos 18-24 and 18A. The exterior is made of finely finished granite rubble, featuring a base course and a variety of panelled timber doors with letterbox fanlights. The cottages have panelled aprons at Nos 18-24 and 18A, with doorways and windows on the principal floor corniced with consoles at these addresses. The long and short dressings are present at Nos 26-30, along with an eaves course and canted dormers on the attic floor.

The principal elevation on the northeast side is asymmetrical. No 18 has a symmetrical design with a central doorway flanked by single windows on either side, regular fenestration in the basement, and two dormers on the attic floor, with a gableted dormer in the center. Nos 20 and 22 are a mirrored pair of four-bay houses with two central doorways accessed by stone steps, flanked by single windows on the outer sides and regular basement fenestration, along with two dormers in the attic. No 24 is asymmetrical with two bays, featuring a doorway on the right of the ground floor flanked by a window on the left, and a dormer on the left of the attic floor with a skylight on the right. Nos 26 and 28 are symmetrical three-bay houses with a central doorway flanked by single windows, two canted dormers in the attic, and a skylight at the center of No 28.

The northwest elevation is gabled and blank. The southwest elevation has a variety of door and window openings and additions. The southeast elevation is also gabled, featuring a doorway on the left of the ground floor flanked by a broad window on the right with non-functional shutters. The outer right corner is curved, with the doorway of No 18 at the center, corniced with consoles, and a flat-roofed addition on the outer left.

The building has a variety of timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof with a lead ridge, stone skews, and coped gableheads with circular and octagonal ridge stacks. It also features cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen in 2000. The boundary walls consist of low granite walls on the northeast side and a variety of brick and rubble walls on the southwest side.