82 Queen's Road, Aberdeen

This is a large, two-storey villa with a basement and attic, built in 1898 by Marshall Mackenzie. It is situated on Queen's Road, Aberdeen. The main, or south-east, elevation is constructed of finely tooled grey granite, with pink granite dressings. The remaining elevations are of Aberdeen bond granite rubble. A rough-faced pink granite base course runs around the building, with moulded cill courses on the ground and first floors, and an eaves course. Long and short, rough-faced granite quoins accentuate the corners.

The south-east elevation is asymmetrical in design. A central doorway on the ground floor is framed by architraves incorporating a keystone with radial voussoirs and a saddle-back cornice; stone steps lead to the two-leaf panelled timber door, which is over a six-light fanlight with turned astragals. Deep architraves and a corniced tripartite window are found in the flanking bay to the left at ground floor, while the centre and left bays at first floor have gableted windows that break the eaves, topped with stone finials and skewputts. To the right, a gabled bay features a three-light canted window on the ground floor, a window in the centre of the first floor, and a bull’s-eye opening in the gablehead.

The north-east elevation is gabled and features flat-roofed and lean-to additions to the ground floor. A decorative stained glass window illuminates the stairwell, and there is a window to the outer left. The north-west elevation is also asymmetrical, with a wing projecting to the right. A two-leaf, small-pane door is set into the ground floor, and a piend-roofed dormer is located in the attic. The fenestration is regular to the returns, while a hexagonal bay is positioned in the re-entrant angle to the left. A narrow, small-pane door is centrally located on the ground floor, flanked to the left by a broad window. A pair of piend-roofed windows break the eaves of the first floor, and four-light rectangular dormers with catslide roofs are present on the attic floor. The south-west elevation is gabled, with a window to the left on the ground floor and irregular fenestration on the first floor; a single-storey and attic wing extends to the outer left.

Most windows are timber sash and case, with plate glass in lower sashes and small-pane upper sashes. The roof is covered in grey slate with lead ridges. Coped pink granite skews have blocked skewputts, and coped gablehead and wallhead stacks are topped with octagonal cans; paired diamond-end stacks are visible at the gablehead of the principal elevation. Cast-iron rainwater goods are fitted.

The interior includes a glazed inner door to the porch, which is flanked by a large plate glass fanlight with fluted pilasters. The hallway is panelled below dado height, with a cartouche frieze and a ribbed and boarded ceiling. An arcaded screen leads to the staircase, featuring simple balusters and a delicate sunrise-patterned stained glass window. Elaborate plasterwork is throughout the house, and timber and marble fireplaces remain, although many are now enclosed.

Low, coped, rough-faced granite walls run along the south-east side, flanked to the left and right by square granite ashlar gatepiers (shared with neighbouring properties). Granite and brick coped walls form the remainder of the boundary.