Callan Lodge, 31 Forest Road, Aberdeen

A Marshal Mackenzie, 1899. 2-storey, 3-bay half-timbered villa. Rough-faced coursed grey granite finely finished to margins; rubble to SE and NE elevations. Ovolo moulded 1st floor cill course; harled half-timbered gables to Forest Road elevation; overhanging eaves with timber bargeboards.

SW (FOREST ROAD) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; recessed bay to centre, gableted window breaking eaves, flanked at ground floor by window to left and 2-leaf glazed door to right, roof swept down over each; narrow gabled bay advanced to left, tripartite windows to ground and 1st floors, narrow window to left return at ground floor; gabled bay to right, tripartite windows to ground and 1st floors.

SE ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled to right, window off-centre to right in gablehead.

NE ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled bay advanced to left, with single storey addition to ground floor and re-entrant angle to right; tripartite window to 1st floor of centre bay with shallow cat-slide roof; tripartite window to ground floor of bay to right, canted gableted dormer to attic floor above.

NW (DESSWOOD PLACE) ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; gabled; piend-roofed porch at ground floor, supported on cast-iron columns with decorative timber balustrading below eaves, glazed and panelled to left return, deeply chamfered doorway to left; queenpost details to gablehead.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof with lead ridges. Gablehead stacks and stack breaking pitch, with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: much of original interior survives; fluted pilasters supporting round arches to hallway; staircase with turned balusters; doors and moulding survive; some fire surrounds; stained glass windows.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: square-plan gatepiers with pyramidal cap to S; coped coursed rough-faced granite boundary walls to W, tooled to read "CALLAN LODGE 31" at NW angle, walls swept up to left of gate; brick and granite coped rubble walls to remainder.