39 Forest Road, Aberdeen

41 Forest Road, built in 1896, is a two-storey and attic double villa designed by architect John Cameron and built by John Morgan. The principal elevation features coursed rough-faced grey granite ashlar with finely finished margins, while the rest of the building is constructed from granite rubble. The design includes a base course, ground floor cill course, dividing band course, first floor cill course, and eaves course.

The southwest elevation is symmetrical and consists of four bays, made up of two mirrored semi-detached villas. The two central bays at ground floor level have doorways with stop-chamfered reveals, corniced with consoles, and pilastered panelled timber doors flanked by glazed panels and letterbox fanlights. Above, there are bipartite windows on the first floor with stop-chamfered reveals, and tripartite timber dormers in the attic with scrolled pediments. The ground and first floors feature three-light canted windows, creating a balcony effect for the attic floor, which has a pediment flanked by two deep scrolls and a tripartite window at the center, adorned with scrolled acroteria and a sunflower patera.

The southeast and northwest elevations are gabled, while the northeast elevation is near-symmetrical with a single-storey addition that projects at the ground floor. This elevation has windows on the first floor and a tripartite rectangular dormer on the right side of the attic floor, along with two skylights. The outer angles are canted, and there are shallow canted windows on the ground floor of the outer bays, with bipartite windows above and bipartite piend-roofed dormers in the attic.

The villa predominantly features two-pane and four-pane timber sash and case windows. It has a grey slate roof with lead ridges, coped stone skews with scrolled skewputts, and corniced gablehead and ridge stacks with square-plan cans. The rainwater goods are made of cast iron.

The interiors were not seen in 2000. The property also includes low coped rough-faced granite boundary walls to the southwest, with gatepiers on the left and right that are shared with 39 and 41 Forest Road and 43 Forest Road, featuring scrolled caps. The remainder of the boundary walls is constructed from granite and brick coped rubble.