76 Forest Road, Aberdeen

George Coutts, 1900. 2-storey at attic, 3-bay villa. Coursed rough-faced grey granite with finely finished dressings to E elevation; Aberdeen bound rubble to remainder. Finely finished base course; architraved openings to E elevation; eaves cornice.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; elaborate doorpiece through ground and 1st floors terminating in curved pediment; pilastered depressed-arched doorway with keystone detail, 2-leaf panelled timber door with small-pane fanlight, pilastered bipartite window to 1st floor supporting deep entablature breaking eaves with pediment; canted windows to ground floor of bays to left, 3-light segmental-arched windows, parapet forming balcony to 1st floor, tripartite windows to 1st floor; single gableted dormer recessed in roof.

N ELEVATION: window to centre of 1st floor; 4-light decorative rectangular dormer to centre of attic floor, flanked to left and right by wallhead stacks breaking eaves with oculus to centre of each, encased by pediment detail.

W ELEVATION: bipartite stained glass stair window to centre, gableted stained glass rectangular dormer to attic floor above; 3-light window to bay to right at ground floor, single window to 1st floor above, modern skylight to attic; piend-roofed 2-storey shallow wing to right with single storey and attic wing adjoining, irregular fenestration, modern skylight to attic behind.

S ELEVATION: not seen 2000.

Predominantly timber sash and case windows, with small pane upper sashes. Piended and platformed grey slate roof with lead ridges surmounted by iron brattishing. Corniced wallhead stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: large stained glass stair window; ? timber panelling; panelled doors to hall.

GATES, GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: rough-faced granite ashlar square-plan gatepiers with decorative caps to NE; low coped Aberdeen bond granite walls flanking, stepped-up to N; iron gates.