King George Vi Memorial Youth Hostel, 8 Queen's Road, Aberdeen

John Rust, 1895; later additions and alterations George Bennett Mitchell & Sons, 1933. 2-storey, basement and attic, 4-bay double villa converted to single villa by G B Mitchell, 1933. Tooled coursed grey granite with contrasting light grey finely finished margins to SE elevation; Aberdeen bond granite rubble to remainder. Base course; architraved dressings to SE elevation; kneelered gables to SE elevation.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; pair of pilastered doorpieces to centre 2 bays of ground floor, supporting corniced entablatures, stones steps flanked by railings to door to left, basket-arched doorway, panelled timber door flanked by glazed panels and letterbox fanlight, bipartite infill to former doorway to right, window to basement; regular fenestration to 1st floor, pair of gableted dormers to attic floor, with stone finials. Gabled bays advanced to left and right, 3-light canted windows through basement, ground and 1st floors with parapet forming balcony to attic floor, basket-arched openings to ground floor; gableted window set in gablehead to attic; stone finial to apex of gable.

NE ELEVATION: gabled to right; windows to centre of each floor, round-arched to attic.

NW ELEVATION: gabled harled 2-storey and attic dormitory addition advanced to centre, G B Mitchell, 1933; gabled bays flanking to left and right with regular fenestration.

SW ELEVATION: gabled to left; window to centre of each floor, round-arched to attic.

Predominantly 2-pane and 4-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof with lead ridges. Coped stone skews with beaked and blocked skewputts. Coped gablehead stacks with octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers.

INTERIOR: decoratively tiled entrance porch; 2-leaf panelled timber door with etched glass upper panels, and etched glass panels flanking and to fanlight, decorative double cornice and ceiling rose; cornices to principal rooms and some mouldings survive; staircase with iron balusters

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: square-plan gatepiers to SE, surmounted by pyramidal caps (shared with adjacent properties); low rough-faced granite coped wall between; granite and brick coped walls to remainder.