Fortune Green, 56 Rubislaw Den South, Aberdeen

Arthur Clyne, 1900. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay villa. Rough-faced coursed grey granite ashlar finely finished to margins of S elevation; Aberdeen bond rubble to remainder. Contrasting dark grey granite base course; 1st floor cill course; flat hoodmoulds; overhanging eaves with timber bargeboards.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; doorway to centre bay of ground floor, roll-moulded reveals and projecting canopy, 2-leaf pilastered panelled timber door reached by flight of granite steps with retaining walls, single window to centre of 1st floor, tripartite rectangular dormer to attic floor; shallow rectangular-plan tripartite window advanced to ground floor of bay to left, gableted bipartite window breaking eaves to 1st floor above; deeply chamfered outer left angle at ground floor with decorative stained glass window to centre, corbelled to form right angle at 1st floor above; gabled bay advanced to right, 5-light canted window to ground floor, bipartite window to 1st floor.

E ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled bay to left, irregular fenestration to bay to right; single storey wing adjoining to outer right, with panelled timber door to left return.

N ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 3-bay; doorway and window to centre bay at ground floor, tripartite stained glass stair window above; bipartite window to ground floor of bay to right, single window above, dormer to attic floor; single storey lean-to wing advanced to ground floor of bay to left, pair of windows to 1st floor; variety of skylights to attic floor.

W ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled bay advanced to right, deeply chamfered angles to ground floor with stained glass window to each (see above for that to right); recessed bay to left, window off-centre to right of 1st floor.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows. Piended and gabled green-grey slate roof with terracotta and lead ridges. Corniced gablehead stacks and coped wallhead stacks with octagonal and circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: fine interior. Mouldings, panelled timber doors, architraves and some fireplaces survive; fine plasterwork ceilings to hall and principal rooms of ground floor; entrance hall panelled below dado, with depressed archway to timber staircase with turned balusters; fine stencilled ceiling to drawing room, probably from studio of Daniel Cottier.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: square-plan gatepiers with shallow pyramidal caps to S, low granite walls between; brick and granite coped rubble walls to remainder.