7 Queen's Road, Aberdeen

This is a later 19th century villa, with 20th century additions and alterations. It is two storeys high, with a basement and attic, and originally had three bays. The north-west elevation, the principal facade, is finished with finely tooled coursed granite at the margins, while the rest of the building is Aberdeen bond granite rubble. A base course, chamfered reveals, projecting cills, and an eaves course are also visible.

The north-west elevation is asymmetrical. A gabled bay is stepped forward to the right and features a kneelered gable; a canted window extends through the ground and first floors, creating a balcony at the attic level. A single window is centred in the attic, topped by a stone finial. A kneelered gabled porch is located in the re-entrant angle to the left, containing a segmental-arched doorway with a two-leaf panelled timber door and a simple fanlight. A window is set in the left return of the porch, and a single window is above on the first floor of the centre bay. Tripartite windows are situated on the ground and first floors of the bay to the left. Two gabled dormers are set into the attic floor, with segmental-arched windows contained within the kneelered gablets, and timber scrolls flanking the base. A single-storey, flat-roofed wing adjoins the left side, with a bipartite window in the centre.

The south-west elevation is gabled, with a doorway in the centre of the ground floor and a window on each floor above it.

The south-east elevation is largely obscured by 20th century additions, including a harled lean-to on the left, a conservatory supported by piers in the middle, and a flat-roofed harled block to the outer right. A few windows are visible on the left and right sides of the first floor, and two canted dormers linked by a rectangular dormer are set into the attic floor.

The north-east elevation is gabled, with a single-storey wing on the ground floor (as previously described), and the remainder being blank.

The windows are predominantly timber sash and case, with two panes or four panes. The roof is covered in grey slate with a lead ridge. The coped skews have decoratively moulded skewputts, and the coped gablehead stacks have octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are fitted.

The interior has been largely remodelled as a hotel. However, decorative mouldings survive in a principal room to the west of the ground floor, including a deep scrolled frieze, a moulded cornice, and two pointed-arched niches with built-in cupboards.

Square-plan, rough-faced granite gatepiers with pyramidal caps mark the entrance on the north-west side, and they are shared with adjacent properties. A low, coped granite wall runs between the gatepiers. The remainder of the boundary is defined by granite and brick coped rubble walls.