35 Albyn Place, Aberdeen

Mid 19th century. 2-storey, 4-bay double villa with Italianate detailing. Tooled coursed granite ashlar finely finished to margins. Battered base course; rusticated long and short quoins; dividing band course; eaves course; overhanging eaves supported on decorative timber brackets.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; recessed central bays; 3-arched open loggia to ground floor, with 2 2-leaf panelled timber doors set back, glazed upper panels and letterbox fanlights; 2 bipartite windows to 1st floor above. Bays to left and right advanced, shallow rectangular-plan windows to ground floor, tripartite round-arched pilastered window to each bay with piended slate roof; tripartite windows to 1st floor above; inside returns blank.

W ELEVATION: asymmetrical; wing advanced to right, 2 windows to ground floor of left return, bipartite window to 1st floor, single window to ground and 1st floors of right return; flanking bay to left blank.

S ELEVATION: 4-bay; symmetrical; regularly placed narrow windows to ground and 1st floor of centre 2 bays, sheet-glass rectangular dormers to attic floor; bays to left and right advanced, 3 windows set in bowed bay to ground and 1st floors of each, 3-light canted dormer windows to attic floor above.

E ELEVATION: single window to centre of 1st floor.

Variety of timber sash and case windows, some lying-pane. Piended grey slate roof with lead ridges. Coped wallhead stacks with octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIORS: not seen 2000.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: square-plan gatepiers with pyramidal caps to N. Low granite kerb wall to N; brick and granite coped rubble walls to remainder.