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Offices and shops of early 20th century date, including the former Burton building. It is a 4-storey, multi-bay complex of commercial buildings now internally linked by a unified shopfront to the ground floor. At the St Nicholas Street elevation the former Burton building is dominated by 5 tall, round-arched openings rising from the first floor with scalloped voussoirs to the arch head. Ribbed metal aprons divide the floors within the arches. There are decorative linen-fold eaves band with panel inscribed 'Montague Burton ' Tailor Of Taste' to centre and alternating chevron-detailed shields. To the south is a 3-bay stugged ashlar building, with a central bay flanked by consoled pilasters at second and third floors rising to form stack with a crenellated panel inscribed 'Commercial Buildings'. A small excavation in the basement of Nos 7-11 was investigated in the early 1990s when workmen discovered a wall and slabbed floor. Another more substantial stone and mortared wall was uncovered. A substantial collection of pottery was recovered (local late medieval wares, glazed red earthenwares and 19th century slipwares, stonewares and creamwares) but none was well stratified,
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Aberdeen City
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NJ90NW0599 - 7-21 ST NICHOLAS STREET, ABERDEEN