48 Victoria Street Including Boundary Walls, Aberdeen

Archibald Simpson, designed 1843, predominantly built after 1849. Single storey and attic, 34-bay terrace comprising 2-bay and 3-bay cottages. Coursed granite rubble finely finished to margins. Base course; panelled aprons; eaves course; dormers to attic floor; doorways predominantly pilastered or with timber fretwork carving to lintel; panelled timber doors with letterbox fanlights.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; Nos 30, 44, 48, 50, 52 and 56: symmetrical; 3-bay; doorway to centre of ground floor, flanked to left and right by single windows; 2 canted dormers to left and right of attic floor, skylight between to Nos 44, 48 and 52, decorative round-arched dormer between to No 30, flat-roofed rectangular dormer between to No 56. Nos 32: asymmetrical; 2-bay; doorway to left of ground floor flanked to right by single window both corniced with consoles, 2 canted dormers to attic floor above. Nos 46 and 54: asymmetrical; 2-bay; doorway to right of ground floor, flanked to left by single window, 2 canted dormers to attic of No 46, canted dormer to left of attic to No 54, rectangular dormer and skylight to right. Nos 34-42: stepped-up; terrace of 5 2-bay houses; simple pedimented doorways to right of ground floor, flanked by single window to left, bipartite window to No 40; 2 timber pedimented rectangular dormers breaking eaves to attic floor of Nos 34 and 42; 2 pedimented tripartite rectangular dormers to attic of Nos 36-40.

NW ELEVATION: symmetrical; gabled; doorway to No 56A to centre of ground floor, corniced with consoles. Boundary wall adjoining to outer right.

SW ELEVATION: asymmetrical; variety of door and window openings; dormers to attic floor, predominantly tripartite pedimented dormers breaking eaves to Nos 34-42. Various additions and alterations.

SE ELEVATION: gabled.

Predominantly 2-pane and 12-pane timber sash and case windows; timber windows with top hoppers to No 48; some replacement windows to dormers. Grey slate roof with lead ridge. Stone skews, blocked skewputts to N. Coped gablehead and ridge stacks with circular and octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIORS: not seen 2000.

LETTER BOX AND BOUNDARY WALLS: coped granite rubble wall to N including George VI wall letter box Type "C" inset; variety of rubble walls predominantly with brick coping to W; brick and rubble ancillary structure to rear of No 48.