3 Rubislaw Den South, Aberdeen

1 Rubislaw Den South in Aberdeen is a double villa designed by Arthur Clyne around 1900. This two-storey and attic building features four bays and consists of two mirrored houses. The exterior is made of rough-faced granite with finely finished margins on the principal elevation, grey granite on the ground floor, and pink granite on the first floor. The remainder of the building is constructed from Aberdeen-bond rubble. Notable architectural details include a base course, a ground floor cill course, and a tooled dividing band course that forms the cill course for the first floor.

The north elevation is symmetrical, featuring two doorways in the center bays of the ground floor, with sunken fillets below the lintels. The doors are timber, panelled, and flanked by glazed panels with letterbox fanlights above, each having a window above on the first floor. The outer left and right bays have shallow rectangular tripartite windows with banded rustication, and the eaves break with crenellated parapets. The attic features bipartite flat-roofed dormers above, with skylights in the central bays.

The west elevation is asymmetrical and gabled, with a single-storey wing adjoining to the right on the ground floor and irregular fenestration elsewhere. The south elevation is near-symmetrical, featuring doorways in the center two bays at the ground floor, a flat-roofed porch addition to the right, and regular fenestration throughout, with single-storey wings on the outer left and right. There are four rectangular dormers on the attic floor.

The east elevation is also asymmetrical and gabled, with a single-storey wing adjoining to the left on the ground floor and a canted window, possibly an oriel, in the center of the first floor.

The building predominantly has two-pane timber sash and case windows, although some PVCu windows are present in the attic and on the rear south elevation. The roof is covered with grey slate and features decorative terracotta ridges, stone skews with blocked skewputts, and coped gablehead and wallhead stacks, with circular cans breaking the pitch. Cast-iron rainwater goods are also present.

The boundary walls consist of low coped granite walls to the north and rubble walls to the remainder.