Prince Of Wales, 7 St Nicholas Lane, Aberdeen

The Prince of Wales, located at 7 St Nicholas Lane in Aberdeen, is a late 19th-century pair of commercial and residential buildings that step down in height from left to right. The ground floor features the Prince of Wales Public House, which is adorned with a late 19th-century timber gantry. The exterior is constructed of grey, picked granite ashlar with strap pointing.

The buildings at Nos 9 and 11 are three stories tall with an attic and consist of three bays. They include a base course, a timber fascia for the Public House, and string and cill courses between the first and second floors, along with an eaves band. The windows are regularly spaced with sloping cills and ogee-flip details on the lintels. At the wallhead, there are tripartite, canted dormers featuring distinctive slated bellcast roofs and apex finials.

No 7 is also three stories tall but has two bays, expanding to four bays at the ground floor where the main entrance to the Public House is located at the third bay. The timber fascia continues here, along with an eaves band. The first and second floors have two widely spaced, marginless openings. A projecting metal sign displays the 'Prince of Wales Feathers'.

Inside the Public House, there are two bracketed, dentiled, and corniced timber gantries, along with a long hardwood bar. The upper floors have plate glass timber sash and case windows, although many openings have been boarded since 2006. The Public House features timber panelled doors flanking a pair of fixed pane, astragalled windows. The roof is a grey slate mansard style with ashlar skews and skewputts, broad end stacks, and clay cans, complemented by cast-iron rainwater goods.