Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

14 EXCHANGE STREETLB20660

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
08/02/1989
Supplementary Information Updated
04/01/2019
Local Authority
Aberdeen
Planning Authority
Aberdeen
Burgh
Aberdeen
NGR
NJ 94203 6106
Coordinates
394203, 806106

Description

Later 19th century. Large 3-storey and attic, 4 and 5 bay, Scots Baronial commercial corner building with street elevations to Exchange Street (E), Imperial Place (S) and Stirling Street (W). Corner turrets and crow-stepped gables to S. Tooled, coursed granite with ashlar dressings and band courses; ashlar to ground. Segmental- arched openings. 2 deep cavetto-moulded shouldered openings to Imperial Place, that to left a doorway. Later 20th century box dormers and mansard roof.

Predominantly timber 4-pane sash and case windows. Grey slate. Candle snuffer roofs to turrets with fish scale decorative slates.

INTERIOR: not visited at time of resurvey (2006) but believed to be substantially altered.

Statement of Special Interest

This is a large, impressive building with street elevations on three sides. Built in the then fashionable Scots Baronial style, the corner turrets and crow-stepped gables are a distinctive addition to the streetscape, and contrast with the surrounding classical style buildings.

Exchange Street and the surrounding area was redeveloped in the mid to late 19th century as a mixed use area with housing, commercial buildings and industrial units.

Previous List Description suggests that this was in use as a Masonic Hall in 1900.

References

Bibliography

2nd Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1899-1901). Ranald MacInnes, The Aberdeen Guide, 200 p 127.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

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Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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