1 Carden Terrace,Carden Place, Aberdeen

1 Carden Terrace, located at Carden Place in Aberdeen, was designed by James Henderson around 1868, with later additions. This building consists of a single storey, basement, and attic, featuring a pair of four-bay houses that each have two bays. The exterior is made of tooled coursed granite ashlar, which is finely finished at the margins, while the basement is rough-faced. Architectural details include a base course, an eaves blocking course, and long and short quoins.

The northwest elevation is near-symmetrical, with doorways located in the center two bays of the principal floor. These doorways are corniced with consoles, and a flight of stone steps, flanked by simple railings, leads to glazed timber replacement doors that feature timber fretwork lintels and letterbox fanlights. The outer left and right bays have canted windows on the basement and ground floors, while the attic floor has rectangular dormers in the center two bays, flanked by piend-roofed canted dormers on the outer sides. There is also a single storey and attic wing adjoining the outer left side.

The southwest elevation features a gabled design, with a single storey addition to the left and a two-storey addition to the right. The northeast elevation is also gabled, with single windows centered on the basement, ground, and first floors, the latter being round-arched. The southeast elevation was not visible in 2000.

The windows at 1 Carden Terrace are timber sash and case, with 2-pane and 4-pane designs, while 2 Carden Terrace has replacement PVCu glazing. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a lead ridge, with coped stone skews that have blocked skewputts. Coped granite gablehead stacks feature both octagonal and circular cans, and the building has cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen in 2000. The boundary walls consist of 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.