84 Queen's Road, Aberdeen

This is a late 19th-century villa, potentially remodelled in 1924 by Brown and Watt. It is two storeys high, with a basement and attic, and has three bays. The villa is constructed of coursed grey granite ashlar, with finer dressings to the south-east (principal) elevation, and coursed rubble to the rest of the building. It features a rough-faced dark grey granite base course, long and short quoins, and pilastered astragals with stylised Ionic capitals to the ground floor and simple pilasters to the first floor of the south-east elevation. There is an eaves course and overhanging eaves.

The south-east elevation is symmetrical; a pilastered and entablatured doorway is centrally positioned on the ground floor, accessed by a flight of stone steps. The doorway has a panelled timber door flanked by leaded panels and a fanlight. Canted windows with three panes are located in the basement and ground floor bays to the left and right, with parapets forming balconies to the first-floor level. Segmental-arched bipartite windows are present in each bay of the first floor.

The north-east elevation is blank. The north-west elevation features a piend-roofed addition to the centre bay with a single basement window and a pair of first-floor windows; irregular openings are present to the left and right returns, with an iron ventilator on the ridge. The flanking bays to the left and right have regular fenestration. The south-west elevation is near-symmetrical, with three bays and a paired window to both the basement and ground floors of the central bay (one of which is blind). Single windows are located in the bays to the left and right at ground floor level, with the first floor having regular fenestration and gable detailing at the eaves.

The windows are timber sash and case windows, with two or four panes to each. The roof is slated, with lead ridges, and features corniced wallhead stacks with square-plan cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are present throughout.

The interior is of fine quality, with an etched glass inner door. There is panelling below the dado of the hall, and a depressed-arch framing to the staircase, along with incised spiral balusters and a decorative newel post. A heraldic shield is incorporated into the stained glass stair window; cast-iron balusters are present on the service stair. Decorative panelling below the dado is found in the principal rooms, accompanied by fine timber fireplaces, round-arched niches in a room to the east of the ground floor, and good quality plasterwork. Original doors, architraves, and some light fittings remain.

The site is enclosed by low, coped, rough-faced granite boundary walls to the south-east and south-west, and square-plan ashlar gatepiers to the south, east, and west. Brick and granite coped rubble walls form the remainder of the boundary.