19 Queen's Road, Aberdeen

This is a substantial, 1882 villa designed by Matthews & Mackenzie, located on Queen’s Road, Aberdeen. Later 20th-century additions, which are not included in the listing, connect the property to numbers 17 and 21 Queen’s Road (those buildings are listed separately). The house is two storeys high with a basement and attic, and it has three bays. The principal north-west elevation is constructed of finely tooled, coursed grey granite with finely finished dressings; the remaining elevations are of granite rubble. A base course, architraved window openings, a dividing band course, and an eaves course are visible, along with overhanging eaves featuring roundels on the underside.

The symmetrical north-west elevation features a banded, pilastered doorpiece in the centre of the ground floor. This incorporates distyle Tuscan columns in antis, detailed rosette carvings in the fluted capitals, and an entablature above. The doorway itself has a two-leaf, panelled timber door with a letterbox fanlight, and glazed panels flank the columns on either side. A tripartite window is positioned above the doorway on the first floor. Tripartite, rectangular-plan, pilastered windows project from the bays to the left and right of the ground floor, with narrower windows to the returns and single windows above on the first floor.

The south-west elevation is largely blank, with a modern addition linking to the building on the right side. The south-east elevation is nearly symmetrical with three bays, and includes a doorway reached by steps, flanked to the left by a ground-floor window in the centre bay. A bipartite stair window sits above, whilst broad, canted bays extend through the basement ground and first floors of the flanking bays. These bays feature four windows on each floor, with the exception of a two-light basement window on the bay to the right. Two small, rectangular dormers are set into the attic floor.

The north-east elevation connects to number 17 Queen’s Road at ground floor level, with the remainder largely blank. The windows are predominantly two-pane timber sash and case. The roof is piended and covered in grey slate with lead ridges. Corniced ridge stacks are present, though the cans have been removed, and cast-iron rainwater goods are fixed to the exterior.

The interior is noted to be fine, with most of the original mouldings remaining. Features include panelled timber doors, door and window architraves, cornices, and fireplaces. A panelled inner door with an etched glass upper panel and fanlight leads directly into the property. The hall features Ionic pilastered panelling reaching a significant height, a fireplace with a tiled inset and mirrored overmantle, a fluted Ionic columned screen flanked by pilasters, a moulded ceiling, and Ionic pilasters flanking doorways. A staircase has turned timber balusters. The principal ground floor rooms are decorated with compartmentalised plaster ceilings, pilastered windows, and decorative cornices. The upper floors have simpler mouldings and fireplaces.

A former stable and coach house, also designed by Matthews & Mackenzie, is located to the south, accessed from Queen's Lane South. This is a two-storey building constructed of granite rubble with finely finished margins, projecting cills, and panelled timber doors with letterbox fanlights.

Gatepiers and boundary walls are shared with the neighbouring properties at numbers 17, 21, and 23 Queen’s Road. Low, square-plan granite ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps mark the north-west boundary, flanked by rough-faced granite walls with ashlar coping. A taller pier surmounted by an urn faces Forest Avenue. The remainder of the boundary is formed of granite and brick coped rubble walls.