The Kessocks, 25 Fonthill Terrace, Aberdeen

The Kessocks, located at 25 Fonthill Terrace in Aberdeen, is a villa designed by City Architect John Rust in 1902. This building is two stories high with an attic and basement, featuring a two-bay layout. The exterior is constructed from tooled coursed granite ashlar, which is finely finished at the northeast corner, while the rest of the structure is made from coursed granite rubble. Notable architectural details include a base course, a dividing band course, an eaves course, V-jointed long and short quoins, and daisy motifs set in the gableheads.

The northeast elevation, which is the principal facade, is asymmetrical. It features a depressed-arched doorway on the ground floor of the left bay, complete with an architrave and keystone detail. The entrance includes a panelled pilastered timber door flanked by two stained glass panels, and there is a dentil moulded timber cornice between the door and a stained glass fanlight that incorporates the name "THE KESSOCKS." Above this, there is a decoratively gableted bipartite window that breaks the eaves, topped with a spherical stone finial. The right bay has a canted window that extends through the ground and first floors, forming a balcony for the attic. At the attic level, there is a round-arched tripartite window set within a decorative Jacobean gable, flanked by channelled rusticated quoins and a continuous hoodmould, adorned with three spherical finials.

The northwest elevation is symmetrical and gabled, with openings at the center of both the ground and first floors. The southwest elevation was not visible during the 1999 inspection. The southeast elevation is asymmetrical and gabled, featuring an off-centre window on the right side of the ground floor and another off-centre window on the left side above, with a three-light window set in the gablehead above.

The building predominantly features two-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a lead ridge, with coped stone skews and simple skewputts. The gablehead stacks are made of coped granite and topped with octagonal cans, while cast-iron rainwater goods are also present.

The boundary wall consists of a low rough-faced granite wall with a flat coping, located to the northeast of the house.