43 Queen's Road Including Boundary Walls And Gatepiers, Aberdeen

A Marshall Mackenzie, architect and John Morgan, builder, 1895; later additions and alterations. 2-storey basement and attic, 4-bay pair of semi-detached villas. Rough faced coursed grey granite ashlar, finely finished pink granite margins at NW elevation; coursed granite rubble to remainder. Ground floor cill course; dividing band course; moulded cills to NW elevation.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; 4-bay comprising mirrored pair of 2-bay villas; 2 broad round-arched doorways to centre bays of ground floor, jambs waisted towards base, moulded impost detail above, voussoirs alternating between rough-faced and finely finished granite, keystone detail, doors deeply recessed, pilastered pair of doors to 41 and 41A, panelled and glazed, pair of small-pane glazed timber doors in pilastered doorway to 43 and 43A, broad small-pane fanlight to each; 2 windows to 1st floor above; 2 gableted dormers set in mansard infill at attic floor. Gabled outer bays, 3-light canted windows to ground floor of each, with parapet enclosing balcony to 1st floor; tripartite windows to 1st floor; attic floor slightly advanced on corbel brackets, tripartite windows centred in gableheads, queenpost details and overhanging eaves, iron sunflower finials to apexes.

SW ELEVATION: gabled; irregular fenestration; doorway to basement floor.

SE ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; full-height basement; projecting lean-to additions to ground floor of 2 central bays, infill to basement below at No 41; window to 1st floor above each; bays to outer left and right advanced, bipartite windows to basement floor, tripartite windows to ground floor and bipartite windows to 1st floor. 4 rectangular dormers with catslide roofs to attic floor.

NE ELEVATION: gabled; irregular fenestration.

Predominantly sash and case windows with plate glass or 2-pane lower sashes and small-pane upper sashes; timber plate glass windows to ground floor of No 41; PVCu glazing replicating original pattern to remainder of NW elevation of No 41, 2-pane to rear; timber windows to No 43. Grey slate roof with terracotta ridge. Stone skews with blocked skewputts. Coped gablehead and stacks breaking pitch with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIORS: not seen 2000.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: square-plan rough-faced granite gatepiers to NW (shared with adjacent villas), with low coped walls between; granite coped rubble walls dividing gardens to NW; high brick coped rubble walls to S, swept down.