496, 498, 500, 502 Union Street, Aberdeen

496, 498, 500, and 502 Union Street in Aberdeen is a three-storey and attic tenement building from the later 19th century, featuring classical detailing. The exterior is made of coursed grey granite ashlar. The first and second floor windows are architraved and have corniced bracketed cills, while there is an eaves cornice and a band course.

The southeast, or principal elevation, is symmetrical. It has a decorative doorpiece at the center of the ground floor, with a doorway flanked by Tuscan columns, a panelled timber door, and a tall fanlight above. This is topped by a fake balcony on elaborate brackets with an iron railing. Modern shop fronts are located to the left and right of the doorway at ground level. Each bay on the first and second floors features two pairs of windows. The attic floor has a pair of segmental-arched windows that break the eaves, with a curvilinear roof at the center, segmental-arched hoodmoulds, and decorative patera set in the gablehead. A stone finial sits at the apex, flanked by two corbelled-out wallhead stacks. There are Venetian dormers in the flanking bays on the left and right.

The northeast and southwest elevations are obscured by adjoining buildings, and the northwest elevation was not visible in 2000. The building predominantly has two-pane timber sash and case windows, although the second floor features replacement PVCu windows. The roof is a grey slate mansard with lead ridges, and it has coped stone skews with moulded skewputts, a corniced gablehead, and wallhead stacks. The rainwater goods are made of cast iron. The interior was not seen in 2000.