Building record MAB24763 - 3-11 MARINE TERRACE, ABERDEEN

Terrace, still in residential use, designed in 1830-31 by Archibald Simpson.

Terrace, still in residential use, designed in 1830-31 by Archibald Simpson. Numbers 9 and 10 were built in 1837 and the scheme revised and completed in 1877-1882 by Duncan McMillan and J Russell Mackenzie. It is a 27-bay, Classical terrace comprising nine three-bay houses. Numbers 7 and 8 are two-storey, basement and attic with the remainder being single-storey basement and attic. The terrace is constructed from coursed grey granite ashlar with finely finished dressings, a base course, architraved window and door openings, pilastered doorways with panelled timber doors and letterbox fanlights. There are ashlar steps and entrance platts oversailing the basement doorways, strip quoins, an eaves cornice, a band course to Numbers 7 and 8, an eaves blocking course and canted dormers to attic. Predominantly two-pane timber sash and case windows are used with four-pane windows to Number 9 and 12-pane to Number 10. The grey slate roof has a lead ridge, stone skews with blocked skewputts, coped granite ashlar gablehead and ridge stacks with octagonal cans and cast-iron rainwater goods. Inside the houses have decorative entrance porches with etched or stained glass, original staircases with turned balusters, much of the original skirting boards and cornices survive and there are some original fireplaces. There are decorative iron railings on a low coped wall flanking the basement and steps to the doorways. Marine Terrace, originally called Belvidere Terrace, sits on a purpose-built embankment overlooking Ferryhill. It was commissioned by the Shoemaker Incorporation in 1830.

Period Notes
Listed 12/01/1967. Designed in 1830-31. Numbers 9 and 10 built in 1837. The scheme revised and completed in 1877-1882.

Record last edited

May 6 2022 5:23PM