Old Ferryhill House, 70 Prospect Terrace, Ferryhill, Aberdeen

Mid to later 18th century. Single storey, half-sunken basement and attic; 3-bay; rectangular-plan plain classical house. Coursed tooled granite with polished sandstone dressings. Base course; raised margins with projecting cills; strip quoins; eaves course.

NE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical; 19th century flat-roofed timber porch advanced to centre at ground floor, panelled timber door, flanked by glazed panels and small-pane wide fanlight, left and right returns blank; window slightly obscured above; regular fenestration to basement and ground floors in flanking bays to left and right; modern skylight to centre of attic floor, flanked to left and right by canted dormer.

NW ELEVATION: symmetrical; small lean-to woodshed canopy with timber uprights and slate roof to centre of ground floor, enclosing boarded timber door to basement; single window set in gablehead above.

SW ELEVATION: symmetrical; 4-bay; regular fenestration to basement and ground floors; gableted tripartite timber dormer to centre of attic floor.

SE ELEVATION: gabled; single window centred in gablehead.

Predominantly 9-pane and 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slate roof with tiled ridge. Coped stone skews with curved skewputts. Coped granite gablehead stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1999.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: square-plan tooled granite gatepiers with pyramidal caps to NE of house; random rubble boundary walls.