9 Marine Terrace, Aberdeen

6 Marine Terrace is a late Georgian classical terrace of nine houses in Aberdeen, designed by Archibald Simpson and constructed in phases between 1830 and 1882. The initial scheme was built between 1830 and 1831, with numbers 9 and 10 added in 1837. The terrace was revised and completed between 1877 and 1882 by Duncan McMillan and J Russell Mackenzie. The 27-bay terrace comprises nine three-bay houses, with numbers 7 and 8 being two storeys with a basement and attic, while the remainder are single storey with a basement and attic.

The buildings are constructed of dressed grey granite ashlar with finely finished dressings. Architectural details include a base course, architraved window and door openings, pilastered doorways with panelled timber doors topped with letterbox fanlights, ashlar steps and platts oversailing the basement doorways, strip quoins, an eaves cornice, a band course to numbers 7 and 8, an eaves blocking course, and canted dormers to the attic.

The east (principal) elevation is near-symmetrical. Numbers 3-6 consist of two mirrored pairs of cottages with doorways centrally placed within the two central bays of the basement and ground floors, flanked by windows on either side, and two dormers above. Numbers 7 and 8 are stepped up and form a mirrored pair of two-storey houses with doorways in the two central basement and ground floor bays, flanked by windows, regular fenestration on the first floor, and two dormers each to the attic. Numbers 9 and 10 are symmetrical cottages with doorways in the central bay of the basement and ground floors, flanked by single windows on either side; number 10 retains its original 1837 fanlight. Number 11 has a doorway in the bay to the left of the basement and ground floors, flanked to the right by a pair of windows, and a fanlight displaying the Roman numeral “X”, with two attic dormers above.

The north elevation is gabled and harled, but largely obscured by a terrace built in 1967. The west elevation exhibits a variety of openings on the basement level, with windows and doors flanked by pairs of canted windows above, and regular fenestration on the first floor. The south elevation is asymmetrical, harled, and half-gabled, and is blank.

The windows are predominantly two-pane timber sash and case, with four panes to number 9 and twelve panes to number 10. The roof is covered in grey slate with lead ridges. Stone skews feature blocked skewputts. The building has coped granite ashlar gablehead and ridge stacks with octagonal cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interiors retain decorative entrance porches with etched or stained glass, original staircases with turned balusters, much of the original skirting boards and cornices, and some original fireplaces.

Decorative iron railings are set on a low coped wall alongside the basement and steps leading to the doorways.