24 Forest Road, Aberdeen

Arthur Clyne, architect, John Morgan, builder, 1903. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay detached villa. Coursed rough-faced grey granite ashlar, with contrasting light grey finely finished dressings to NE elevation; tooled rubble to remainder. Ground and 1st floor cill courses; dividing band course.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; window to centre of ground floor, blind tablet to 1st floor above; gabled bays flanking to left and right, overhanging eaves, timber bargeboards and queenpost detail to gablehead; 3-light canted window through ground and 1st floors of bay to right, parapet forming balcony to attic floor, tripartite window set in gablehead; depressed-arched doorway with keystone detail, flanked by pilasters with panelled shafts to centre of ground floor, recessed panelled timber door with stained glass fanlights and panels flanking, 3-light canted oriel window corbelled from keystone at 1st floor, parapet forms balcony to tripartite window set in gablehead.

NW ELEVATION: broad gable; stained glass windows to ground and 1st floors at centre, small window flanking to right, single storey wing adjoining to right, doorway to left return.

SW ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 2-bay; rectangular-plan tripartite window advanced to right of ground floor, single window flanking to left, single storey service wing adjoining to outer left; regular fenestration to 1st floor; pair of canted dormers to attic floor.

SE ELEVATION: asymmetrical; M-gabled; doorway to centre of ground floor, flanked to right by 3 single windows; window to centre of 1st floor.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof with terracotta ridge. Stone skews with blocked skewputts. Coped gablehead stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: divided into flats; not seen 2000.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: obelisk granite gatepiers with shallow pyramidal caps to NE, low rough-faced granite walls between; brick and granite coped rubble walls to remainder.