1-18 Union Grove Court, Union Grove, Aberdeen

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 07/03/2002 Local Authority Aberdeen Planning Authority Aberdeen Burgh Aberdeen NGR NJ 93232 05637 Coordinates 393232, 805637 — R G Wilson of Ellis & Wilson, 1887-88; later additions; converted to flats, Malcolm Allan, Housebuilders, 1973. 2-storey and attic, 5-bay, rectangular-plan, former church with classical and Egyptian inspired detailing. Tooled coursed granite ashlar with finely finished dressings to N and E elevations; coursed granite rubble to remainder. Dark grey rough-faced base course; ground and 1st floor cill courses; dividing band courses; eaves blocking course. E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; pedimented central bays; elaborate pedimented doorpiece to centre bay of ground floor, columns and pilasters with stylised capitals support dentil moulded cornice, balustraded parapet above supporting pediment, stone steps surmounted by modern railings lead to replacement glazed timber door, tall fanlight above, flanked by glazed panels between columns and pilasters; windows to flanking bays to left and right; decorative panelled dividing band course between ground and 1st floors; elaborate pilastered and corniced tripartite window to centre bay of 1st floor, surmounted by deeply architraved half-roundel, architraved and pedimented windows to flanking bays to left and right; frieze of blind oculus below pediment; blind colonnade below pediment, flanked by pilastered pediments, roundel to centre of pediment with acroteria. Blind architraved openings to ground floor; pilastered upper floors, blind architraved oculi above with projecting cills; blind tablets set in blocking course, scrolled wallhead. N ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 9-bay; pilastered 1st floor; regular fenestration to 6 bays to left, windows infilled below cills at 1st floor, toole

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.