Gatepiers And Railings, Gates, 4 Marine Place Including Boundary Wall, Ferryhill, Aberdeen

This building, known as the gatepiers and railings, gates, and boundary wall at 1 Marine Place in Ferryhill, Aberdeen, was likely designed by Archibald Simpson in 1837. It is a single-storey structure with an attic and basement, featuring a 12-bay rectangular plan that includes six 2-bay cottages. The exterior is made of coursed granite rubble with finely finished raised margins, and it has a base course. The windows and doorways are corniced with consoles, and there are panelled timber doors with letterbox fanlights. The building also features strip quoins, an eaves course, and canted piend-roofed dormers.

On the northern (principal) elevation, the design is near-symmetrical with six 2-bay cottages. There is a doorway to the left of the ground floor, accessed by stone steps that oversail the basement. A window is located in the flanking bay to the right at ground floor, with a variety of windows in the basement below. A dormer is situated to the right of the attic floor, flanked on the left by a 2-pane window or a modern skylight.

The western elevation is gabled and symmetrical, with a 2-bay design that includes blind windows on the basement and ground floors. The southern elevation has regularly placed doorways and windows, along with dormers and skylights on the attic floor. The eastern elevation is also gabled.

The building features predominantly 12-pane and 8-pane lying-pane timber sash and case windows, with 2-pane windows at Nos 4 and 6, and a 4-pane window at No 5. The roof is covered with graded grey slate and has a lead ridge, with coped stone skews. The gablehead and ridge stacks are made of granite and have circular and octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are also present.

The interiors were not seen in 1999. The gates, gatepiers, boundary walls, letterbox, and railings include square-plan granite gatepiers with pyramidal caps on the northern side, leading to a 2-leaf decorative iron gate. Low granite walls flank the gate to the left and right, stepping up and adjoining the terrace, which is topped with iron railings. To the south, there are brick-coped rubble garden walls that incorporate brick outbuildings. A Victorian wall letterbox of Type "C" is set into the wall to the southwest.