5 Carden Terrace, Carden Place, Aberdeen

5 Carden Terrace is a pair of 2-bay houses built around 1868 by James Henderson, featuring a single storey, basement, and attic. The exterior is made of tooled coursed granite ashlar, finely finished at the margins, with a rough-faced basement. Architectural details include a base course, an eaves blocking course, and long and short quoins.

The northwest elevation is symmetrical, with doorways in the two center bays of the principal floor that are corniced with consoles. There is a flight of stone steps leading to panelled timber doors, which are topped with timber fretwork lintels and letterbox fanlights. The outer left and right bays have canted windows in the basement and ground floors, while the attic features four skylights flanked by piend-roofed canted dormers.

The southwest and northeast elevations are gabled, with flat-roofed additions to the south. The southeast elevation was not visible in 2000.

The windows are timber sash and case, with 2-pane and 4-pane designs. The roof is covered in grey slate with a lead ridge, and features coped stone skews with blocked skewputts, as well as coped gablehead and wallhead stacks with octagonal and circular cans. The property has cast-iron rainwater goods.

The boundary walls include a low granite wall topped with railings enclosing the basement, a coped granite wall to the north, and coped granite rubble walls to the east and west.