Glenburnie Park, 13 Rubislaw Den North, Aberdeen

Glenburnie Park is a large house dating from 1885, situated at 13 Rubislaw Den North, Aberdeen. It is a building of group value, appreciated for its contribution to the character of the surrounding area.

The house is two storeys, with an attic and basement, and has three main bays plus a service wing to the west. The ground floor is constructed from Aberdeen bond granite, while the first floor is of rubble stone with finely finished margins. The base and basement course are rough-faced, and a dividing string course features billet detailing. Architectural features include chamfered reveals, curved angles to the ground floor which become right angles through corbelling at the first floor, a first floor cill course, and overhanging eaves with elaborately carved and pierced bargeboards and open half-timbered gableheads.

The north (Rubislaw Den North) elevation displays a symmetrical facade. A canted porch with a Tudor-arched doorway, pilastered, panelled double doors, and a geometrically traceried fanlight projects to the centre of the ground floor, approached by stone steps. Traceried and stained glass windows flank the doorway on either side. A gabled bay is advanced above the porch, featuring a broad tripartite window with a blind boarded central pane. Gabled bays flank the left and right, each with tripartite windows to both ground and first floors. The recessed service wing to the outer right has a panelled timber door with a letterbox fanlight and small windows beside it on the ground floor, with further windows above.

The west elevation, largely obscured by the service wing, is gabled and features irregular window placement, including tripartite and single windows to the return. A gabled tripartite window breaks the eaves at the first floor and a canted tower is located to the re-entrant angle on the right.

The south (garden) elevation is asymmetrical and features three bays. A central gabled bay has a glazed and panelled timber door with a small-pane fanlight on the ground floor, paired bipartite windows above, and a flanking 2-light window to the left. To the left is another gabled bay, and to the right of the ground floor are paired bipartite windows. A deeply canted angle is found to the outer left, with a small window featuring an ogee lintel at its centre, and a three-light oriel window on the first floor. The harled gablehead has a bipartite window inset. Finally, an advanced gabled bay to the far right has a canted first floor with a seven-light window, supported by deep corbels, with a central tripartite window and single windows to the chamfered outer angles.

The east elevation is asymmetrical with a gabled bay to the left and a canted bay that advances through both ground and first floors, with two further gabled bays to the right, featuring near-regularly placed openings.

The windows are predominantly timber sash and case with small-pane upper sashes. The roof is covered in grey slate with lead ridges, and features coped ridge and gablehead stacks fitted with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are also present.

The interior was not accessible for inspection in 2000.

Rough-faced square-plan granite gatepiers with shallow pyramidal caps mark the entrance on the north side, with a low coped granite wall connecting them. Further rubble walls define the remaining boundary.