What is recorded here

Castleton Crescent rose in Aberdeen as a twentieth-century housing estate and tower block, forcing city life upward instead of outward. Its concrete height suggested ambition, yet distance stripped the towers of warmth and left residents suspended between sky and street. The buildings still mark the era when urgency, not patience, shaped the homes people were told would free them.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Aberdeen, Castleton Crescent as Flat(s) (20th Century), Housing Estate (20th Century), Tower Block(s) (20th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

The historic-place record does not grant public access. Check current conditions and ownership before entering land or a building.