76 Forest Road, Aberdeen

76 Forest Road in Aberdeen is a two-storey villa with an attic, built in 1900 by George Coutts. The building features coursed rough-faced grey granite with finely finished dressings on the east elevation, while the rest is made of Aberdeen bond rubble. It has a finely finished base course and architraved openings on the east elevation, along with an eaves cornice.

The principal elevation, which is symmetrical, showcases an elaborate doorpiece that spans the ground and first floors, ending in a curved pediment. The entrance includes a pilastered depressed-arched doorway with a keystone detail, leading to a two-leaf panelled timber door topped with a small-pane fanlight. Above, there is a pilastered bipartite window on the first floor that supports a deep entablature, which breaks the eaves with a pediment. The ground floor features canted windows in the bays to the left, while the first floor has tripartite windows and three-light segmental-arched windows, with a parapet forming a balcony. A single gableted dormer is recessed in the roof.

On the north elevation, there is a window at the centre of the first floor and a decorative 4-light rectangular dormer in the attic, flanked by wallhead stacks that break the eaves and feature an oculus at the centre of each, encased by pediment detail.

The west elevation includes a bipartite stained glass stair window at the centre and a gableted stained glass rectangular dormer above in the attic. There is a three-light window in the ground floor bay to the right, a single window on the first floor above, and a modern skylight in the attic. A piend-roofed two-storey shallow wing is attached to the right, with a single-storey and attic wing adjoining it, featuring irregular fenestration and a modern skylight in the attic behind.

The south elevation was not visible in 2000. The villa predominantly has timber sash and case windows with small-pane upper sashes. The roof is made of grey slate with lead ridges and is surmounted by iron brattishing. It has corniced wallhead stacks with circular cans and cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside, there is a large stained glass stair window, timber panelling, and panelled doors in the hall.

The property also includes gates, gatepiers, and boundary walls. The gatepiers are made of rough-faced granite ashlar in a square plan with decorative caps on the northeast side, while low coped Aberdeen bond granite walls flank the property, stepped up to the north, and are accompanied by iron gates.