14 Queen's Road, Aberdeen

14 Queen’s Road is a villa dated 1876 and designed by Duncan McMillan. It is a two-storey building with a basement and attic, and originally had three bays. The villa exhibits Scots Baronial detailing. The south-east elevation is constructed of finely finished, tooled coursed grey granite with contrasting light grey dressings, while the remainder of the building is of Aberdeen bond rubble. The basement is of rough-faced granite, and features a base course, stop-chamfered reveals on the south-east elevation, and crowstepped gables on the same elevation.

The south-east, or principal, elevation is asymmetrical. A segmental-arched doorway is located in the centre bay of the ground floor, with chamfered reveals and a replacement panelled timber door incorporating a stained-glass fanlight. This is accessed by stone steps flanked by railings. A gableted window breaks the eaves in the centre bay of the first floor, topped with decorative stone finial. A canted window extends through the basement and ground floor of the bay to the left, enclosed by iron railings. The roof is piended and slate-covered, with a gableted bipartite window above, also breaking the eaves, and topped with another stone finial. To the right, an advanced gabled bay has a similar canted window with iron railings and a piended slate roof. A bipartite window is located on the first floor, and a narrow opening is set into the gablehead of the attic floor. The gable apex is finished with a spherical stone finial.

The north-east elevation has a gable and a basement addition, with windows positioned centrally on both the ground and first floors. The north-west elevation has an irregular arrangement of windows, including a panelled timber basement door and a segmental-arched stained-glass window on the first floor, flanked by gableted windows breaking the eaves. The south-west elevation is gabled and blank.

The windows are predominantly timber sash and case, with two and four panes, although some on the first floor have been replaced. The roof is covered in grey slate with lead ridges. Stone skews have beaked skewputts and coped gablehead stacks are topped with octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are also present.

Internally, the entrance porch retains a tiled floor, and some original doors, architraves, skirting boards and cornicing remain. The stair was boxed in around the year 2000, and there are no fireplaces on the ground floor.

The property is bounded by square-plan gatepiers with pyramidal caps (shared with adjacent properties) and a low, coped, rough-faced granite boundary wall. Further granite and brick coped rubble walls form the remainder of the boundaries.