Provost Robertson's House, 6, 8 Upperkirkgate, Aberdeen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1967. Townhouse. 1 related planning application.
Provost Robertson's House, 6, 8 Upperkirkgate, Aberdeen
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-lancet-cobweb
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Townhouse
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Robert Gordon Wilson, dated 1899. Unusual 3-storey and attic, 4-bay Scots Rennaissance style townhouse with shops to ground incorporating fragments from earlier buildings. Grey, polished granite ashlar; deeply moulded cornicing to ground and jettied second floors. Shop to ground with rusticated round-arched entrance to close at far right; embedded Classical portal with round-arched window above surmounted by armorial panel with roll-moulded surround. Segmental arched windows to remaining bays to left with raised cills. Small 12-pane casement windows to second floor flanked by oculus windows. Large, multi-paned dormers break eaves; dormerheads to inner bays contain fabric from earlier building, one dated 1680. Moulded arch within pend to corbelled re-entrant angle turret stair; 16th century moulded doorway to rear with armorial panel, dated 1730.
Grey slate to steeply pitched roof; ashlar skews and skewputts; broad, corniced ashlar stacks; clay cans.
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