25, 27, 29 Queen's Road, Aberdeen

A villa built in 1879 by John Rust, with later additions and alterations, located at 25, 27, and 29 Queen’s Road, Aberdeen. It is a two-storey building with a basement and attic, originally designed as a three-bay villa, incorporating Scots Baronial details.

The villa is constructed of tooled coursed grey granite, with contrasting light grey dressings, exhibiting particularly fine finishing to the north-west elevation; granite rubble makes up the remainder of the exterior. Key features include a base course, a dividing band course, segmental arched openings with chamfered reveals, and crowstepped gables with stone finials at the apexes.

The north-west (principal) elevation is asymmetrical. A doorway, serving number 29, is centrally located on the ground floor, featuring a modern panelled timber door and a replacement fanlight, with a gableted window breaking the eaves above the first floor. Bipartite windows are present in the basement and ground floor of the bay to the left, with a gableted window breaking the eaves above the first floor. A gabled bay projects to the right, featuring a three-light canted window extending through the basement and ground floors, covered by a slate roof with decorative cast iron brattishing. A bipartite window is situated on the first floor, with a relieving arch over it, and a small round arched window is set into the gablehead.

The southwest elevation is gabled.

The southeast elevation is asymmetrical and features a full-height basement. A modern doorway is centrally positioned on the ground floor, flanked to the left by a window. A modern conservatory addition with a harled basement adjoins to the right, with steps curving around it, leading to the garden. A doorway for number 27 Queen’s Road is located centrally on the basement floor, below the steps. A window is positioned centrally on the first floor. A three-light canted window extends through the basement and first floors of the bay to the left, beneath a piended roof. Piend-roofed windows break the eaves to the left and right of the first floor, and a rectangular dormer and a modern skylight are visible in the attic.

The northeast elevation is gabled and asymmetrical, featuring a pilastered and pedimented doorway (serving number 25 Queen’s Road) on the right side of the ground floor, with a modern panelled timber door. An oculus is positioned to the left of the doorway, and windows are located in the basement and ground floor of the bay to the left. A window is centered on the first floor.

The windows are predominantly timber sash and case, with two-pane and four-pane glazing. The roof is covered in grey slate with a fishscale band in the centre, with lead ridges. It has stone skews with beaked skewputts, coped gablehead stacks with circular and octagonal cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods.

The original interior was a single villa, but the staircase has been removed. Some original features survive on the ground floor, while the remainder of the interior was not visible during inspection in 2000.

Square-plan ashlar gatepiers, with corniced necks and shallow pyramidal caps, mark the north-west boundary (shared with adjacent properties), and are connected by a coped low tooled granite wall. Granite and brick coped rubble walls form the remainder of the boundary.