17 Queen's Road, Aberdeen

McRobbie & Milne, builders, 1881; rear wing addition Sutherland & George, 1909. 2-storey and basement, 3-bay villa adjoining 19 Queen's Road (see separate listing). Tooled coursed grey granite with contrasting light grey granite dressings, finely finished to margins. Base course; panelled aprons; dividing band course; long and short rusticated quoins; eaves course; overhanging eaves with dentil moulded cornice.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; doorway to centre of ground floor, corniced with consoles, panelled timber door with letterbox fanlight; single window to 1st floor above. 3-light canted windows through ground and 1st floors to flanking bays to left and right, with piended roofs and iron finials to apex.

SW ELEVATION: gablet to centre; glazed corridor linking to 19 Queen's Road, 2 windows centred above.

SE ELEVATION: centre obscured by wing added by Sutherland & George, 1909: 2-storey, lean-to timber conservatory to centre of ground floor with corrugated-iron roof, window above, 2 windows and boarded doorway to left return, doorway reached by flight of steps, flanked by 2 windows to ground floor of right return, single window above. Regular fenestration to bay to left at basement, ground and 1st floors; doorway to basement floor of flanking bay to right, flanked by window to right, timber canted oriel window above, window to 1st floor.

NE ELEVATION: gablet to centre.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows. Piended and gabled grey slate roof with lead ridges. Corniced wallhead stacks, cans removed. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: majority of skirting boards, panelled timber doors, architraves, dado rails and cornicing survives; panelled inner door with glazed upper panels; segmental and round arches to hallway supported by simple pilasters; iron balusters to staircase; decorative cornices, wall and ceiling mouldings to principal rooms of ground floor, each with round-arched niches inset; decorative timber fire surround with ionic pilasters room to E.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: shared with 19, 21 and 23 Queen's Road. Low square-plan granite ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps to NW, flanked by rough-faced granite walls with ashlar coping; tall pier surmounted by urn to Forest Avenue; granite and brick coped rubble walls to remainder.