49 Queen's Road, Aberdeen

A Marshall Mackenzie, architect and John Morgan, builder, 1895; later additions and alterations. 2-storey basement and attic, 4-bay pair of semi-detached villas now linked to 53 Queen's Road (see separate listings). Rough faced coursed grey granite ashlar, finely finished pink granite margins at NW elevation; coursed granite rubble to remainder. Ground floor cill course; dividing band course; moulded cills to NW elevation.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; 4-bay comprising mirrored pair of 2-bay villas; 2 broad round-arched doorways to centre bays of ground floor, jambs waisted towards base, moulded impost detail above, voussoirs alternating between rough-faced and finely finished granite, with keystone detail, door deeply recessed to 49 Queen's Road, pilastered panelled timber door flanked by glazed panels, replacement glazed doors to No 51; 2 windows to 1st floor above; single bipartite rectangular dormer to left of attic floor, 2 skylights behind. Gabled outer bays, 3-light canted windows to ground floor of each, with parapet enclosing balcony to 1st floor; tripartite windows to 1st floor; attic floor slightly advanced on corbel brackets, tripartite windows centred in gableheads, overhanging eaves, iron sunflower finials to apexes.

SW ELEVATION: obscured by link to 53 Queen's Road.

SE ELEVATION: asymmetrical; full-height basement; 2 windows to centre 2 bays of ground floor and 1st floor, balcony to ground floor that to right adjoining projecting timber lean-to oriel to bay to outer right, bipartite window to 1st floor above; bay to outer left advanced, bipartite window to each floor; 4 rectangular dormers with catslide roofs to attic floor.

NE ELEVATION: gabled; window to centre of ground and 1st floor.

Predominantly sash and case windows with plate glass or 2-pane lower sashes and small-pane upper sashes. Grey slate roof with terracotta ridge. Stone skews with blocked skewputts. Coped gablehead and stacks breaking pitch with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIORS: not seen 2000.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: square-plan rough-faced granite gatepiers to NW (shared with adjacent villas), with low coped walls between; granite coped rubble walls dividing gardens to NW; high brick coped rubble walls to S, swept down.