6 Rubislaw Place Including Boundary Walls, Aberdeen

Archibald Simpson, 1835, built by Mackenzie and Matthews from 1849. 2-storey and attic, 15-bay terrace comprising 6 2-bay houses and 1 3-bay house split into 2, now primarily in office use. Finely finished granite ashlar to principal elevation, lightly tooled granite to N and S Elevations; granite rubble to E Elevation. Base course; eaves blocking course. Panelled aprons to ground floor; projecting cills to 1st floors; gableted tripartite rectangular dormers to attic floor; pilastered panelled timber doors with letterbox fanlights.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: Nos 1-6 Rubislaw Place: 6 2-bay houses, doorway to left of ground floor, window above, regular fenestration to flanking bay to right; single dormer flanked to left by skylight to Nos 1 and 3; large 8-light modern rectangular dormer to No 2, pair of dormers to Nos 4-6, modern rectangular dormer to centre of No 4. 3-bay block (right return of Nos 21 and 23 Waverley Place) to outer left, regular fenestration; pair of dormers to attic floor, with bipartite piend-roofed dormer to centre.

S ELEVATION: gabled; flat roofed addition to ground floor.

E ELEVATION: near regular fenestration; variety of single storey and 2-storey additions; piended and rectangular dormers and skylights to attic floor; panelled timber door with 2-pane fanlight reached by flight to steps to centre of 3-bay houses to right (No 23 Waverley Place).

N (WAVERLEY PLACE) ELEVATION: gabled; symmetrical; doorway to centre, corniced with consoles, windows flanking to left and right, window to right blind; small single-pane window to centre of 1st floor flanked to left and right by single windows; round-arched niche set in gablehead.

Predominantly 2-pane, 4-pane and 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof with lead ridge. Coped stone skews with blocked skewputts. Coped gablehead and ridge stacks with octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods, some to principal elevation set in vertical fillet.

INTERIORS: not seen 2000.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: 2 square-plan gatepiers to NE adjoining N elevation, with pyramidal caps, coped rubble wall adjoining to E. Low granite wall to NW and W.