35 Queen's Road, Aberdeen

35 Queen's Road, Aberdeen, is a large villa built in 1895 by Marshall Mackenzie. It is two storeys high, with a basement and attic, and originally had three bays. The north-west elevation is constructed from rough-faced grey granite ashlar, with finer pink granite dressings. The remaining elevations incorporate coursed rubble with red brick dressings. A continuous cill course runs along the ground and first floors, with raised margins and long and short quoins. The windows on the north-west elevation have an unusual granite mullion and transom pattern. An eaves cornice runs around the building.

The north-west (principal) elevation is symmetrical, featuring an architraved doorway in the centre bay of the ground floor, accessed by five stone steps flanked by railings. A small-pane architraved window sits above the door, flanked by stylised scrolls. The ground floor also has bipartite windows to the left and right bays. The first floor has regular fenestration, with bipartite windows featuring plate glass lower panes and smaller upper panes. The central window of the first floor has a curved cornice detail. The attic floor’s centre bay is gabled, with a bipartite window in the gablehead, flanked by horizontal band cornices, unusually moulded crowsteps and a stone finial.

The south-west elevation is gabled and includes a two-storey, piend-roofed addition to the centre, featuring a window positioned centrally on the first floor.

The south-east elevation is asymmetrical, with two bays. A lean-to porch to the left of the basement floor oversails a three-light window and is supported by rustic timber columns. Broad windows are present on the ground and first floors above the porch, with a dormer to the attic. A broad canted bay extends through the basement and ground floor of the right-hand bay, with a four-light window to the first floor. A broad rectangular dormer is present on the attic floor.

The north-east elevation is gabled, with a flat timber door and a letterbox fanlight to the basement floor. It features two horizontal windows on the ground floor and a single window on the first floor.

The windows have modern glazing replicating the original pattern, using plate glass in the lower panes and small panes above. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a lead ridge, along with stone skews. Corniced gablehead stacks and cast-iron rainwater goods are also present.

The interior has largely been altered for commercial use, although some original mouldings survive. These include a staircase with replacement balusters and fluted timber pilasters supporting round-arched openings to the hall.

Square-plan granite gatepiers mark the entrance to the property on the north-west side, with low, coped ashlar walls between them. Granite and brick coped rubble walls form the remainder of the boundary.