Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

BRICK TERRACE WITHIN BON-ACCORD CRESCENT GARDENSLB49361

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
11/08/2003
Local Authority
Aberdeen
Planning Authority
Aberdeen
Burgh
Aberdeen
NGR
NJ 93618 5667
Coordinates
393618, 805667

Description

Earlier 19th century. 3-level garden terrace on steeply sloping site. Red brick faced; predominantly random stone rubble to side elevations. Predominantly flat or slightly bowed stone coping (several sections missing). Some stone flag paving to area in front of lowest level. Out of character modern metal railings to front and sides of all 3 levels.

LOWEST LEVEL: to centre, large segmentally-arched niche. To right, round-arched opening with modern gate leading to stone steps giving access to grassed platform above.

MIDDLE LEVEL: to left, stone steps leading to grassed platform above.

UPPER LEVEL: to right, stone steps leading to concrete paved platform above.

Statement of Special Interest

B-group with 1-19 (inclusive numbers) Bon Accord Crescent.

Listed as a good and relatively unusual extant example of earlier 19th century garden architecture.

The Bon Accord Gardens were originally formed as private gardens belonging to the houses of Bon Accord Crescent. The Crescent was designed by Archibald Simpson for the Incorporation of Tailors, and construction of the

houses began in 1823.

The gardens were formed on the south-west facing bank of the vale of the Howe Burn and were a major selling point of the Crescent (then known as Bon Accord Terrace). When they advertised feus in 1823, the Tailors stressed that 'the Terrace in particular commands an uninterrupted prospect of the south-west of the environs of the city and of the country to a great distance and overlooks the ground in the adjacent valley'. It is not clear precisely when the gardens were laid out but they were well established by the mid 1800s. The gardens were long strips, of varying widths running down the hill, divided by walls.

Several of them had terraces similar to this example, which were popular features in urban gardens of the early 19th century.

During the 20th century, Bon Accord gardens were in use as a market garden, with the upper sections used as allotments. In the 1970s, the market garden closed and the Gardens were landscaped to form an open area of public park. The remaining evidence of the original form of the gardens as private gardens was removed and only this single terrace survived these changes.

References

Bibliography

O.S.Map, 1868. The Ferryhill Heritage Society, LOST FERRYHILL, pp 12-14. C Graham, ARCHIBALD SIMPSON, ARCHITECT OF ABERDEEN, 1790-1847, (Bicentenary edition, 1990), pp 23-29.

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.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

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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