1 Carden Terrace,Carden Place, Aberdeen

James Henderson, circa 1868; later additions. Single storey, basement and attic, 4-bay pair of 2-bay houses. Tooled coursed granite ashlar, finely finished to margins; rough-faced basement. Base course; eaves blocking course; long and short quoins.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; doorways to centre 2 bays of principal floor, corniced with consoles, flight of stone steps flanked by simple railings lead to glazed timber replacement doors with timber fretwork lintels and letterbox fanlights; canted windows through basement and ground floors of flanking bays to outer left and right; rectangular dormers to centre to bays of attic floor, flanked to outer left and right by piend-roofed canted dormers. Single storey and attic wing adjoining to outer left.

SW ELEVATION: gabled; single storey addition to left, 2-storey addition to right.

NE ELEVATION: gabled; single windows centred to basement, ground and 1st floors, round-arched at 1st floor.

SE ELEVATION: not seen 2000.

2-pane and 4-pane timber sash and case windows to 1 Carden Terrace; replacement PVCu glazing to 2 Carden Terrace. Grey slate roof with lead ridge. Coped stone skews with blocked skewputts. Coped granite gablehead stacks with octagonal and circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 2000.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low boundary wall enclosing basement, surmounted by railings; coped granite wall to N; coped rubble walls to E and W.