514-520 Union Street, Aberdeen

This building, located at 514-520 Union Street in Aberdeen, is a late 19th-century tenement that stands three stories tall with an attic and features three bays. It is constructed from coursed grey granite ashlar and has a cill course at the first and second floors, a deep eaves cornice, and an eaves blocking course.

The southeast elevation is symmetrical, showcasing a pilastered timber doorway at the center of the ground floor, which includes a panelled timber door topped by a geometrically glazed fanlight. Modern shop fronts are located on both sides of the entrance. Above, there is a single window in the center bay on the first and second floors, flanked by three-light canted oriel windows that create a balcony effect at the attic level. The attic floor features a central round-arched window that breaks the eaves, complete with a projecting cill and keystone detail, and is topped with a pediment flanked by large stylized scrolls. Additionally, there are two segmental-arched timber dormers on either side of the attic, each with a bipartite window.

The northeast elevation is partially gabled and features blank, harled brickwork on the right side, with a blind window opening to the left on the first floor. The northwest elevation was not visible in 2000, while the southwest elevation is gabled, with the ground floor obscured by an adjoining building and the remainder being blank.

The building predominantly has timber sash and case windows with small-pane upper sashes, though some have been replaced. It has a grey slate mansard roof with lead ridges, coped stone skews, and coped gablehead stacks with circular cans. There is also a corniced stack at the apex of the pedimented central bay on the southeast elevation, along with cast-iron rainwater goods. The interior was not seen in 2000.