4 Rubislaw Place Including Boundary Walls, Aberdeen

6 Rubislaw Place is a terrace of houses built in 1835 from a design by Archibald Simpson, with construction undertaken by Mackenzie and Matthews from 1849. The terrace comprises six two-bay houses, one three-bay house split into two, and a further three-bay block linked to 21 and 23 Waverley Place. The buildings are now primarily in office use.

The principal, west-facing elevation is finely finished granite ashlar, while the north and south elevations are of lightly tooled granite. The east elevation is granite rubble. Architectural details include a base course, eaves blocking course, panelled aprons to the ground floor, projecting cills to the first floor, and gableted tripartite rectangular dormers to the attic floor. The houses have pilastered, panelled timber doors with letterbox fanlights. Numbers 1 to 6 have a doorway to the left of the ground floor, with a window above, and regular fenestration to the flanking bay to the right. Skylights and dormers are also present, with a large, modern rectangular dormer in the centre of No 2 and a pair of dormers in Nos 4-6. The block adjoining Waverley Place has a symmetrical facade with a pair of dormers and a piend-roofed dormer to the attic floor.

The south elevation is gabled with a flat-roofed ground floor addition. The east elevation has a variety of single-storey and two-storey additions, including piended and rectangular dormers, skylights to the attic, and a panelled timber door with a two-pane fanlight leading to steps. The north-facing Waverley Place elevation is also gabled and symmetrical, featuring a corniced doorway with consoles, flanking windows, a blind window to the right, a small single-pane window on the first floor, and a round-arched niche in the gablehead.

The buildings feature predominantly two-, four- and twelve-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is grey slate with a lead ridge. Coped stone skews with blocked skewputts, coped gablehead and ridge stacks with octagonal cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods, some set in a vertical fillet to the principal elevation, are also present. Interiors were not inspected in 2000.

Two square-plan gatepiers with pyramidal caps stand at the northeast corner, adjoining the north elevation, with a coped rubble boundary wall extending eastwards. A low granite wall runs along the northwest and west sides.