17 Queen's Road, Aberdeen

This is a two-storey and basement villa built in 1881 by McRobbie & Milne, with a rear wing added in 1909 by Sutherland & George. It adjoins 19 Queen's Road and is constructed of finely finished, tooled coursed grey granite with contrasting light grey granite dressings. The exterior features a base course, panelled aprons, a dividing band course, long and short rusticated quoins, an eaves course, and overhanging eaves with a dentil moulded cornice.

The north-west elevation is symmetrical and includes a doorway in the centre of the ground floor, corniced with consoles, and a panelled timber door with a letterbox fanlight. Above it is a single window. Flanking bays to the left and right have three-light canted windows extending through both the ground and first floors, each topped with a piended roof and iron finials.

The south-west elevation features a gablet and a glazed corridor connecting to 19 Queen's Road. The south-east elevation is largely obscured by the 1909 wing addition, which incorporates a two-storey lean-to timber conservatory with a corrugated-iron roof. The rear return has a window above the conservatory, a boarded doorway reached by steps, and windows to the ground floor, with a single window above. The elevation also has regular window placement and a basement doorway, with a timber canted oriel window above.

The north-east elevation has a central gablet.

The windows are predominantly two-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is grey slate, with lead ridges, and corniced wallhead stacks (the cans have been removed). Cast-iron rainwater goods are present.

Inside, much of the original timber detailing remains, including skirting boards, panelled doors, architraves, dado rails and cornicing. A panelled inner door with glazed upper panels is present. The hallway features segmental and round arches supported by simple pilasters, and an iron baluster staircase. Decorative cornices, wall and ceiling mouldings are found in the principal ground floor rooms, each with round-arched niches. A decorative timber fire surround with ionic pilasters is located in a room to the east.

Shared with the neighbouring properties at 19, 21 and 23 Queen's Road, the gatepiers and boundary walls are of granite. Low, square-plan gatepiers with pyramidal caps are located on the north-west side, flanked by rough-faced granite walls with ashlar coping. A taller pier topped with an urn marks Forest Avenue. The remainder of the boundary consists of granite and brick coped rubble walls.