Building record MAB24783 - 48 MARISCHAL STREET, ABERDEEN

Townhouse, in residential use, built some time between 1789 and 1821.

Townhouse, in residential use, built some time between 1789 and 1821. It is a three-storey, two-bay townhouse incorporating a secondary entrance to the Elim Pentecostal Church at the ground floor left. The building is constructed from grey granite ashlar with an eaves band and multi-pane timber sash and case windows with glazed margins at the first and second floor tripartite windows. The grey slate roof has a red brick stack to the left gable with a granite ashlar facing, an ashlar skew, clay cans and recessed cast-iron rainwater goods. The recessed doorway has a six-panel timber door, narrow glazed sidelights and an astragalled cast-iron fanlight above. There is a segmental-arched entrance to the left (belonging to adjacent Elim Pentecostal Church), tripartite openings with stone mullions to the right bay at the first and second floors and decorative cast-iron balconies at the first-floor windows. The rear west elevation is five-storey with irregular fenestration. A plaque on the front wall commemorates the artist William Dyce (1806-1864) who was born in the house. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and Mariscal College, and was elected as an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1835.

Period Notes
Listed 12/01/1967. Built some time between 1789 (Alexander Milne Map) and 1821 when it appears on the John Wood map.

ABERDEEN CITY COUNCIL, 2013, PEOPLE AND PLACES ABERDEEN (Bibliographic reference). SAB8383.

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Oct 31 2024 2:01PM