3 Carden Terrace, Carden Place, Aberdeen

3 Carden Terrace is a house built around 1868 by James Henderson, with later additions. It is a single storey, basement, and attic structure with three bays. The exterior features tooled coursed granite ashlar, which is finely finished at the edges, and a rough-faced basement. It has a base course, an eaves blocking course, and long and short quoins.

The northwest elevation is symmetrical, with a central doorway on the principal floor that has a cornice supported by consoles. A flight of stone steps leads up to a panelled timber door, which is topped by a timber fretwork lintel and a letterbox fanlight. The flanking bays on either side have canted windows in the basement and ground floors, while the attic features a skylight, flanked by piend-roofed canted dormers.

The southwest and northeast elevations are gabled, with single storey additions attached to the south. The southeast elevation was not visible in 2000.

The house has 2-pane and 4-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof with a lead ridge, and coped stone skews with blocked skewputts. The gablehead stacks are made of granite and topped with octagonal cans, and it has cast-iron rainwater goods.

The boundary walls include a low wall enclosing the basement, topped with railings; there is a coped granite wall to the north and coped rubble walls to the east and west.