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Latitude: 57.1303 / 57°7'49"N
Longitude: -2.1142 / 2°6'51"W
OS Eastings: 393185
OS Northings: 804384
OS Grid: NJ931043
Mapcode National: GBR S95.WW
Mapcode Global: WH9QX.H1GN
Plus Code: 9C9V4VJP+48
Entry Name: Outseats House, 395 Hardgate, Aberdeen
Listing Name: 395 Hardgate, Outseats House, Including Gatepiers and Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 26 May 1977
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 355784
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB20641
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200355784
Location: Aberdeen
County: Aberdeen
Town: Aberdeen
Electoral Ward: Torry/Ferryhill
Traditional County: Aberdeenshire
Tagged with: House
Circa 1800. 2-storey, 3-bay, L-plan traditional house. Random granite rubble with long and short dressings. Long and short quoins; projecting cills; granite ashlar eaves course.
S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical; pilastered and pedimented timber porch advanced to centre bay of ground floor, modern timber door with letterbox fanlight, window to left and right returns; window to each flanking bay; regular fenestration to 1st floor.
E ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled bay to left, blank; wing advanced to right, ground floor not seen (1999), 2 windows to 1st floor.
N ELEVATION: asymmetrical; bay to left not seen (1992); gabled wing advanced to left, ground floor obscured by modern garage additions; timber door with letterbox fanlight to ground floor, 2 windows to 1st floor of right return.
W ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled; single window off-centre to left of ground floor.
Predominantly replacement 2-pane and 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof with terracotta ridge. Stone skews with simple skewputts. Coped, granite and harled gablehead stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen 1999.
GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: square-plan granite ashlar gatepiers to W of house, with pyramidal caps; random rubble flat coped boundary walls to N, E and W.
Outseats House is one of the few early 19th century buildings to survive, almost completely intact, in this area of Aberdeen.
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