12 Fonthill Terrace, Aberdeen

2 Fonthill Terrace, Aberdeen, was designed by D and J R McMillan and built in 1901 as a terrace of fifteen bays, comprising three pairs of two-bay houses (Nos 4-14) and a single three-bay house (No 2) to the east. The building is constructed of tooled coursed grey granite with finely finished dressings, featuring a rough-faced base course, a moulded cill course, and overhanging eaves with gableted dormers.

The southwest (principal) elevation shows a near-symmetrical facade, with depressed-arched doorways featuring keystone detail in the centre bays of each pair of houses, except for No 2. Each door is panelled with a nine-pane, decoratively leaded glazed upper panel, flanked by three-pane glazed panels, surmounted by a small-pane fanlight. A gabled, rectangular-plan tripartite window extends through the ground and first floors of the bay to the right of the doorway at Nos 4 and 12. A canted three-light window with a decorative parapet runs through the ground and first floors of the bay to the left of the doorway at Nos 6 and 10, topped with a polygonal roof and an elongated finial at No 10. Nos 2 and 14 feature a five-light canted window through the ground and first floors in their respective third and outer left bays. A single window is located on the ground and first floor of the penultimate bay to the right, flanked to the outer right by a three-light canted window with a spire and elongated finial on the angle. Numerous gabled and gableted dormers are situated on the attic floor.

The southeast elevation is asymmetrical, with a round-arched window to the right of the ground floor, flanked to the left by a flat-roofed porch featuring a four-light window. A segmental-arched doorway is found at the left return of No 2, panelled with a nine-pane, decoratively leaded glazed upper panel, flanked by glazed panels, and surmounted by a letter-box fanlight. Three irregularly placed windows are situated on the first floor, complemented by a gableted dormer on the attic floor.

The northeast elevation is nearly symmetrical, although the basement floor is not visible. Paired canted oriel windows are located on the ground floor, flanked by single windows. Regularly placed single and bipartite windows adorn the first floor, while the three bays to the left (No 2) exhibit irregular fenestration, including a large stair window with decorative upper panels, flanked on the left by a stained glass window. Irregularly placed dormers and skylights are present on the attic floor. The northwest elevation is also nearly symmetrical, featuring a ground floor window flanked to the right, with a stained glass stair window above.

The windows are predominantly timber sash and case, with plate glass lower panes and six and eight-pane upper panes, although replacement PVCu windows are found at No 6. The roof is covered in piended grey slate with a decorative terracotta ridge, and includes granite wallhead stacks and stacks breaking the pitch, finished with circular cans. Stone dividing skew walls are present with scrolled skewputts. Cast-iron rainwater goods feature decorative hoppers. The interior was not inspected in 1999. Low, tooled granite boundary walls with chamfered coping, rectangular-plan dividing and gate piers are located on the southwest side; a rubble wall with rubble coping is present on the southeast side.