Description

Mid 19th century. 2-storey and attic, 12-bay terrace comprising 6 2-bay houses. Tooled granite rubble, finely finished to margins. Base course; pilastered timber doorway, panelled timber door with 2-pane fanlights; projecting cills; eaves course; predominantly canted piend-roofed dormers to attic floor.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: Nos 172 and 173, 174 and 175: 8-bay comprising 2 4-bay mirrored pairs of 2-bay houses; doorways to centre bays of ground floor, flanked to outer bays by single windows, regular fenestration to 1st floors; single canted dormer to outer bays of attic floor, with skylights between, modern rectangular dormers to attic of No 175. No 176: asymmetrical; doorway to left of ground floor, flanked to right by single window, regular fenestration to 1st floor, 2 canted dormers to attic floor. No 178: regular fenestration to ground and 1st floors, 2 canted dormers to attic floor (doorway to SW elevation, see below).

SW ELEVATION: gabled; doorway to centre of ground floor, remainder blank.

SE ELEVATION: irregular openings and doorways, variety of dormers to attic floor.

NE ELEVATION: gabled; small window to centre of ground and 1st floors.

Variety of timber sash and case windows; occasional modern glazing to all but No 176. Grey slate roof with lead ridge. Coped gablehead and ridge stacks with circular cans. Coped stone skews with blocked skewputts. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 2000.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low granite walls to NW.

Statement of Interest

Good surviving example of a traditional Aberdeen terrace, similar in style to the nearby Victoria Street (see separate listing). The survival of the quoins between 173 and 174 Skene Street suggests that 172 and 173 were originally detached, and therefore are perhaps slightly earlier in date than the remainder of the terrace.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77774417

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings