51 Carden Terrace Including Boundary Wall And Railings, Aberdeen

Nos 31-37 completed by 1864; remainder later 19th century; completed primarily by Mackenzie and McMillan, circa 1881; George Hall, builder, No 47 dated 1876. Single storey and attic, 30-bay terrace comprising 12 2-bay and 2 3-bay cottages. Tooled coursed granite ashlar finely finished to margins. Base course; pilastered timber doorways some with fretwork timber lintel; letterbox fanlights; doorways and windows corniced with consoles; panelled timber doors, some 2-leaf; panelled aprons to ground floor windows; long and short quoins; eaves course; predominantly canted dormers to attic, some later additions.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: Nos 31, 35-53: 2-bay; doorway flanked by single window to principal floor. Nos 33 and 55: 3-bay; doorway to centre of principal floor flanked to left and right by single window. No 2 Prince Arthur Street, Carden Place elevation: 2-bay, window to each bay. 2 canted dormers to each cottage; skylight to centre of No 33; bipartite rectangular dormer to centre of No 55.

SW ELEVATION: pair of round-arched windows centred in gablehead with keystone detail.

SE ELEVATION: irregular openings to ground floor; predominantly 2 dormers to attic floor of each cottage; some additions and alterations.

NE (PRINCE ARTHUR STREET) ELEVATION: No 2: symmetrical, 3-bay, doorway to centre of ground floor flanked to left and right by single window; 3 round-arched windows set in gablehead. No 4: 3-bay; doorway to left of ground floor flanked to right by 2 windows, 2 dormers to attic above; boundary wall adjoining to outer left (see below).

Predominantly 4-pane timber sash and case windows; plate glass window to No 51; 2-pane windows to No 55; some modern glazing to dormer windows. Grey slate roof with lead ridges. Coped stone skews with blocked skewputts. Corniced gablehead and ridge stacks with circular and octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIORS: not seen 2000.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS: low granite walls to N, some surmounted by railings. Rubble coped walls to S.