7 King's Gate, Aberdeen

7 King's Gate in Aberdeen is a double villa built in 1897 by George Coutts. This two-storey building features a basement and attic, and is designed in a Gothic style. It is constructed from coursed rough-faced grey granite, with finely finished margins. The exterior includes a base course, a dividing band course, chamfered cills, and decorative timber trusses in the gableheads of the main elevation. The eaves overhang and are adorned with timber bargeboards.

The northwest, or principal elevation, is symmetrical and consists of four bays that form two 2-bay villas. The central doorways on the ground floor are accessed by a flight of granite steps and feature chamfered reveals, two-leaf panelled timber doors flanked by glazed panels, a timber dentil lintel, and decorative leaded fanlights—one with cusped tracery for No 7 and a letterbox fanlight for No 9. There are two small windows on either side of the doors, bipartite windows above in each bay on the first floor, and two bipartite gableted dormers in the attic. The gabled bays are advanced at the outer left and right, each with tripartite windows on every floor.

The southwest elevation is gabled and has a pair of windows on both the ground and first floors, along with a round-arched window in the attic and queenpost details in the gablehead. The southeast elevation is near-symmetrical, with regular fenestration in the centre bays, while the outer bays feature stepped-down additions. The inner returns are chamfered, with a window on each floor and a canopy above the first floor, and piend-roofed dormers in the attic. The northeast elevation is asymmetrical, featuring a doorway to the basement flanked by small windows, a pair of windows on the ground and first floors, and a round-arched window in the attic, also with queenpost details in the gablehead.

The villa predominantly has two-pane timber sash and case windows with square-leaded upper sashes. The roof is a grey slate mansard with lead ridges, and there are coped granite wallhead stacks breaking the pitch and gablehead stacks. The building also features cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interiors were not seen in 2000. The boundary walls consist of low coped granite walls to the north and rubble walls for the remainder, with a square-plan gatepier located to the northwest.