Main Block, Comb Works, 4-5 Ivory Court, 38-40 Hutcheon Street, Aberdeen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 June 1997. Industrial building, office.

Main Block, Comb Works, 4-5 Ivory Court, 38-40 Hutcheon Street, Aberdeen

WRENN ID
noble-stone-rowan
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 June 1997
Type
Industrial building, office
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Circa 1830-40 with additions of 1830s. Multiple ranges of industrial and office buildings developed as comb works, and restored in 1970 following fire in 1969. Altered to offices in 1981. Original block L-plan, 3-storey and attic, 11 x 11-bay. Later additions forming courtyard. Plain granite rubble, slate roofs with Velux windows. Curved forestair with cast-iron railings on main front.

Gable elevation with corniced stack to Hutcheon Street with round-headed 1st and 2nd floor windows. Casement windows. Glazed ground floor openings on main return.

LAter additions: E wing with shaped, aedicule gable. Low single storey 'gateway' wings with later (?) dormers and ashlar-coped gables with corniced stacks on returns.

Ball-finialled entrance piers. Ashlar. Slate roofs. Sash and case windows. Setted courtyard.

INTERIOR: panelled 'private office' converted to board room. Interior not seen.

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