32 Rubislaw Den South, Aberdeen

Brown and Watt, 1897. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay picturesque villa. Tooled coursed grey granite ashlar finely finished to margins of S elevation; coursed granite rubble to remainder. Base course; chamfered reveals; dividing string course; granite mullion and transoms to windows.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled bay advanced to left, 5-light canted window to ground floor with parapet forming balcony to 1st floor, tripartite window with flat hoodmould to 1st floor, deeply chamfered oculus set in gablehead with moulded shaft rising from centre and breaking eaves to form finial at apex of gable; square-plan engaged entrance tower to re-entrant angle to right, broad segmental-arched doorway to ground floor, with decoratively roll moulded reveals, blind panelled hoodmould enclosed by moulded shafts, glazed timber door flanked by glazed panels and fanlight, bipartite window to 1st floor, small bipartite window off-centre to right of attic floor, window to right return, crenellated parapet stepped up to right, with arrowslit openings inset and weathervane to apex; bipartite windows to ground and 1st floors of bay to right; chamfered outer right angle with single windows to ground and 1st floors.

E ELEVATION: asymmetrical; irregular fenestration to bay to left, bays to right advanced with windows to left return, harled to outer right.

N ELEVATION: predominantly not seen 2000, rectangular dormer with stained glass to left of attic floor.

W ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled; bipartite window to centre, flanked to left by single window; horizontal shouldered opening set in gablehead.

Predominantly timber sash and case windows, small-pane upper sashes to ground floor, stained glass upper sashes to 1st floor. Grey slate roof with lead ridges in places; coped stone skews with gableted skewputts. Gablehead stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative top hoppers.

INTERIOR: not seen 2000.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: tooled granite ashlar square-plan gatepiers to S with pyramidal caps, low granite walls between; rubble walls to remainder.