24 Forest Road, Aberdeen

24 Forest Road in Aberdeen is a detached villa designed by architect Arthur Clyne and built by John Morgan in 1903. This two-storey building with an attic features a three-bay layout and is constructed of coursed rough-faced grey granite ashlar, with contrasting light grey finely finished dressings on the northeast elevation, while the rest of the building is made of tooled rubble. It has ground and first floor cill courses and a dividing band course.

The northeast elevation, which is the principal facade, is asymmetrical. It has a central window on the ground floor and a blind tablet above on the first floor. There are gabled bays on either side, with overhanging eaves, timber bargeboards, and queenpost detail at the gablehead. The right bay features a three-light canted window that runs through both the ground and first floors, with a parapet forming a balcony above. The gablehead has a tripartite window, and the ground floor includes a depressed-arched doorway with a keystone detail, flanked by pilasters with panelled shafts. The recessed panelled timber door has stained glass fanlights and side panels, and there is a three-light canted oriel window corbelled from the keystone on the first floor.

The northwest elevation has a broad gable with stained glass windows at the centre of both the ground and first floors, a small window to the right, and a single-storey wing adjoining to the right with a doorway on the left return.

The southwest elevation is asymmetrical and consists of two bays. It features a rectangular-plan tripartite window advanced to the right on the ground floor, with a single window to the left and a single-storey service wing on the outer left. The first floor has regular fenestration, and there are two canted dormers in the attic.

The southeast elevation is also asymmetrical and has an M-gabled roof. It includes a doorway at the centre of the ground floor, flanked by three single windows to the right, and a window at the centre of the first floor.

The villa predominantly has two-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof with terracotta ridges, stone skews with blocked skewputts, and coped gablehead stacks with circular cans. The rainwater goods are made of cast iron.

The interior has been divided into flats, but it was not seen in 2000.

The property also features obelisk granite gatepiers with shallow pyramidal caps on the northeast side, with low rough-faced granite walls between them, and brick and granite coped rubble walls surrounding the remainder of the property.