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Summary

Description

A short terrace of late 18^th or early 19^th century houses, with later 20^th century alterations, set on a side street with the Carron Water running behind them. The terrace is made up of three, three-bay symmetrical houses to the east and two, smaller, two-bay houses to the west end. The eight ground floor narrow windows are equally spaced along the terrace and each has a slated and canted roof bay dormer above. The walls are wet dash rendered to the front (north) elevation and the rear (south) are rubble stonework. The rear of number 29 has a piended roof outbuilding with brick stack attached to its rear and a later 20^th century, two-storey, flat-roofed addition with slate facing to the upper floor. There is a wide box dormer across the rear of numbers 35 and 37.

There is a mixture of replacement wooden and uPVC door and windows, with most of the windows to the front elevation in a sash and case design. The roofs are slate with rendered ridge stacks between each house.

Historical background

Built as part of the Stonehaven New Town Plan which was laid out by Robert Barclay of Ury in 1797 on the land of the Arduthie Estate. Cameron Street forms the southernmost edge of the 18^th century grid plan of the town centre.

The terrace of houses first appears on John Wood's 1823 Plan of the Town of Stonehaven as a simple rectangular plan. By the time of the First Edition Ordnance Survey Map (surveyed 1865, published 1868) the addition to the rear of number 29 is evident. The houses are shown built on the north bank of the Carron Water and this relationship remains unchanged although new water defences have been constructed.

Number 29 has a further two storey flat roofed addition to the rear which probably dates to the 1980s or 1990s.

In 2022, the banks of the Carron Water were replaced with tall stone walled flood prevention defences which now form the rear boundary garden walls of 29 – 37 Cameron Street. The category C listed White Bridge footbridge (LB41553) adjacent to number 37 was removed and reinstated as part of these works.

Statement of Special Interest

29-37 (odd nos) Cameron Street meets the criteria for listing for the following reasons:

• It is a typical example of a traditional terraced houses and its form, scale and overall footprint are largely unaltered from the time it was built.
• Later alterations and recent flood defence works are mainly at the rear and have not adversely affected the historic character of the group.
• The group retains its historic setting next to other listed buildings. The location close to the shore and on the riverbank also reflects the traditional trade and commerce on which Stonehaven was founded and developed.
• It dates to the early 19th century and is good and early representative example of its prolific building type.

Architectural interest

The principal entrance elevation (north) of the terrace retains an evenly spaced window and door formation, which is also shown in a photograph from 1975 (Trove Place Record UID 243935) and which is likely to be as originally built. The original window and door openings are intact and the scale and form of the principal elevation remains readable as an early 19^th century terrace. The attic storey dormers may be an historic addition dating to the 19^th century but are typical for this type and period of row of houses. Later changes to the materials of the doors and windows have not affected the overall character of the principal elevation to the terrace.

Similarly, the incremental changes to the rear elevation, including the additions to number 29 and the recent (2023) installation of a flood defensive wall, have not adversely affected the historic character of the buildings.

Historic interest

The street was designed as an integral part of the development of the designed town plan form of Stonehaven which was laid out in 1797. It is one of the earliest groups of buildings in Stonehaven and it continues to represent this early phase of development of the town into its current form. The terrace's location close to the shore and directly on the riverbank likely reflects the traditionally strong link Stonehaven had with fishing, mercantile shipping and maritime trade.

The terrace is intervisible with other listed buildings in the area including the category A listed St James Episcopal Church (LB41552) just to the south, and the Category C listed White Bridge (LB41553) to the immediate west of number 33.

Supplementary information in the listed building record updapted in 2026.

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