Ataraxia, 114 Anderson Drive, Aberdeen

Ataraxia is a villa located at 114 Anderson Drive in Aberdeen, built in 1923 by James Cobban. It is a single storey and attic structure with three bays. The southern elevation features rough-faced grey granite ashlar that is finely finished at the margins, while the rest of the building uses Aberdeen bond granite. The design includes a battered base course, overhanging eaves with timber bargeboards, and queenpost detailing at the gableheads.

The principal southwest elevation is asymmetrical, featuring a round-arched doorway in the center bay of the ground floor. This doorway has a horseshoe surround made of contrasting light grey granite and is complemented by an Art Deco panelled timber door flanked by glazed panels and a fanlight above. Above this, there is a triangular dormer on the attic floor. To the left, there is a gabled bay with a five-light rectangular-plan window and a crenellated parapet, while the right bay contains a bipartite window. An octagonal angle turret is positioned at the outer right angle, which has five windows and an iron finial at the apex of its roof.

The southeast elevation is also asymmetrical, featuring an angle turret on the outer left, with a gablet to the right and a canted bay further to the right. The northeast elevation was not visible in 2000, while the northwest elevation has two windows in the center and a gabled bay to the right.

The villa predominantly features timber sash and case windows with small-pane upper sashes. The roof is piended and gabled, covered with grey slate and lead ridges, and has iron brattishing along the ridges. The wallheads and gableheads are coped, with stacks that have circular cans. The rainwater goods are made of cast iron.

The interior was not seen in 2000. The property also includes square-plan gatepiers made of finely finished ashlar on the southeast side, topped with shallow pyramidal caps, and low walls between them that are stepped up. The remainder of the boundary consists of granite and brick coped rubble walls.