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Summary

Description

A Ellis and R G Wilson, circa 1876-81. Terrace sited on ground falling to rear with 24-bay central block comprising 13, 2-bay houses (Nos 58-70) of single storey, attic and basement with attic floor breaking eaves; 2-bay terminal blocks of 2-storey, attic and basement (Nos 54-57 and No 71). Tooled, coursed grey granite ashlar finely finished to margins of N, W and E elevation, rubble to rear. Base course; eaves course; timber bracketed eaves to piended dormerheads to 1st floor of N elevation; strip quoins.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: central block: basement recess, 2 windows to basement; deck leading to doorway to right of ground floor, panelled timber door, replaced to 54-58, 60-62, and 67, with letterbox fanlight, stained glass to No 66 reading "ELLIS 66"; window to flanking bay to left of ground floor; 2 dormers breaking eaves to attic floor.

Terminal block to right: 2 windows to basement; doorway reached by 5 steps to right of ground floor, replacement timber door with letterbox fanlight, window to flanking bay to left; regular fenestration to 1st floor; dormer to right of attic floor, flanked to left by canted dormer.

Terminal block to left: asymmetrical; 5-bay; single storey and attic to right, 2 storey at attic to left; shops at ground floor to left, 2 central doorways, flanked to outer left and right by large plate-glass windows; window to centre of 1st floor; window to attic floor. Door to ground floor of flanking bay to right, flanked by small window; dormer breaking eaves to attic floor.

W ELEVATION: gabled; irregular fenestration off-centre to left.

S ELEVATION: predominantly door flanked to right by window at basement (now ground floor); small window to ground floor (now 1st floor), flanked to right by window; small window to attic floor flanked to right by dormer breaking eaves; regular fenestration to 1st floor of terminal blocks.

E ELEVATION: 2 infilled doorways to centre of ground floor, flanked to left and right by plate-glass shop windows; 3 regularly placed windows to 1st floor; single pane skylights to attic floor; central shouldered wallhead stack with roundel and curvilinear string course.

4-pane timber sash and case windows survive to Nos 66, 68 and 70; variety of replacement windows to remainder. Grey slate roof, piended to left terminal block, with lead ridges. Stone skews. Coped granite ridge, gablehead and wallhead stacks with predominantly octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: surviving features in No 66; grid pattern and geometric plasterwork features in principle rooms, cornices and swag pattern frieze. Decorative plasterwork in alcoves. Other houses not seen 1999.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS: brick coped rubble boundary walls enclosing individual gardens to S. Decorative ironwork railings to N.

Statement of Special Interest

54-71 Springbank Terrace was designed (and probably built separately) by the Aberdeen architect Alexander Ellis (1830-1917) and his partner Robert Gordon Wilson. Wilson lived in No 60 and Ellis in No 66. Information courtesy of owner of No 66.

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