1, 3, 5 Desswood Place, Aberdeen

Dated 1904. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay, rectangular-plan freestyle terrace with shops at ground floor; rectangular-plan ancillary structure to rear. Coursed grey granite ashlar, tooled to ancillary structure to rear with finely finished margins. Projecting cills to N, chamfered cills to E; eaves course.

N (DESSWOOD PLACE) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; large plate-glass shop windows to ground floor, with vertically glazed upper panes, panelled timber door with 3-pane fanlight to outer right, flanked by recessed doorway to shop. Segmental-arched window to centre of 1st floor with keystone detail; decorative wallhead stack breaking eaves above, enclosed by 2 buttresses corbelled out on decorative brackets breaking roofline with splayed capitals. Bipartite window to flanking bay to right, piended roof with decorative iron finial. Panelled 2-leaf timber door to ground floor of angle to outer left, curved glass fanlight; hexagonal turret recessed in angle of 1st and attic floors above, 3-light windows to each, hexagonal spire with oversized finial.

W ELEVATION: gabled, opening off-centre to right of ground floor, stair window centred above.

S ELEVATION: ground floor obscured; irregular fenestration to 1st floor; 2 canted dormers to attic floor.

E (WHITEHALL ROAD) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 2 gabled bays; large plate-glass shop windows to ground floor, with vertically glazed upper panes. Tripartite window to left of 1st floor, flanked to right by single window. Semi-circular tablet with keystone detail centred in gablehead reading with monogram to centre flanked by "19 04". Ancillary structure, No 3 Whitehall Road adjoining to left; broad segmental-arched doorway with keystone detail to centre, 2-laef modern timber door with fanlight, centre plane slightly advanced; curvilinear blocking course swept-up to form simple parapet; single buttress breaking eaves with splayed capital to outer left.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows with decorative geometric upper pane. Grey slate roof with lead ridge, piended to No 3 Whitehall Road. Coped stone skews with simple skewputts. Corniced wallhead and gablehead stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 2000.

BOUNDARY WALLS: coped granite rubble boundary wall adjoining No 3 Whitehall Place to outer left, incorporating modern garage door; Coped rubble wall with square-plan gatepier to W.