46 Forest Road Including Boundary Walls And Gatepiers, Aberdeen

John Rust, 1894. 2-storey and attic, 4-bay double villa. Tooled coursed grey granite with contrasting light grey long and short dressings finely finished to margins at NE elevation; coursed granite rubble to remainder. Base course; band course; eaves course; long and short quoins. Panelled aprons; doorways corniced with consoles.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 4-bay comprising 2 2-bay mirrored houses, 44 Forest Road is subdivided into flats; near-symmetrical; 3-light canted windows through ground and 1st floors of centre 2 bays, parapets forming balconies to attic floor, pedimented attic floor flanked by deep scrolls, bipartite windows to centre, blind oculi set in pediment, stone finial to apex. Doorways to ground floor of bays to outer left and right, pair of replacement double doors to 44 and 44A Forest Road, single pilastered panelled timber door with letterbox fanlight to 46 Forest Road; gableted window breaking eaves to 1st floor above, details mirror central pediments; rectangular and piend-roofed dormers to attic floor above.

NW ELEVATION: gabled; stepped tripartite stair window to centre, 3-light window above; irregular fenestration to remainder; 2-storey wing adjoining to outer right.

SW ELEVATION: service wings to outer left and right, modern rectangular dormers to attic floor.

SE ELEVATION: gabled; stepped tripartite stair window to centre, 3-light window above; irregular fenestration to remainder; 2-storey wing adjoining to outer right.

2-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof with lead ridge. Coped stone skews with scrolled skewputts. Coped gablehead and ridge stacks with square-plan cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 2000.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: low granite wall to NE; rubble walls to remainder.