Custom House, 35 Regent Quay, Aberdeen

James Gordon of Cobairdy, 1771. Well-proportioned 3-storey and basement, 5-bay townhouse with over-sailing steps to central doorway. Grey granite ashlar with raised margins and deeply chamfered quoins. Basement and eaves band courses; moulded cornice. Gibbs-style surround doorpiece and pediment. Later, small tapering stone entrance piers to streetline; low coped wall with cast-iron railings returning at far left to single-storey harled outshot with brick margins. 2-storey harled outshot to rear elevation.

12-pane plate glass to timber sash and case windows; grey slate to M-pile roof; twin stacks at right and left gable ends; clay cans; cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: Original room layout retained. Multi-pane glazed vestibule with double-leaf door to main entrance hall. Pilastered and arched entrance hall. Fine stone staircase with square central well to rear of building rising to attic level; ornamental cast-iron balustrades; moulded timber handrail. Fine, dentiled cornicing to principal rooms. Run of shallow vaulting to basement.