9, 11 Forest Road, Aberdeen

Arthur Clyne, architect, John Morgan, builder; 1896. 2-storey and attic, 4-bay double villa. Coursed rough-faced grey granite ashlar, contrasting pale grey tooled and finely finished margins. Base course; ground floor cill course; dividing band course; moulded 1st floor cill course; eaves course; parapet between gables of principal elevation.

SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; 4-bay, comprising 2 2-bay mirrored, semi-detached villas; doorways to 2 centre bays at ground floor, reveals waisted towards base, decorative volute brackets supporting lintels above, pilastered panelled timber doors, 9 Forest Road glazed to upper panels, flanked by glazed panels, letterbox fanlights, window to each bay of 1st floor above. 5-light rectangular-plan windows advanced through ground and 1st floors of bays to outer left and right, parapet enclosing balcony to attic floor; pedimented attic floor flanked by 2 deep scrolls, window centred to each (replacement glazing to 11 Forest Road), scrolled acroteria to pediment, sunflower patera centred in each. Skylights to centre of attic.

SE ELEVATION: gabled; windows to centre of ground and 1st floors; lean-to addition to right, window to centre, glazed door to left return; adjoins boundary walls to left and right.

NE ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; 4-bay; broad openings to centre bays of ground floor, single storey and attic wings adjoining to left and right, 3-light piend-roofed dormer to each, regular fenestration to 1st floor; 2 canted dormers to centre of attic floor, with skylights above, flanked to outer left and right by broad rectangular dormers with catslide roofs.

NW ELEVATION: gabled; lean-to addition to left, doorway to right return; adjoins boundary walls to left and right.

Predominantly timber sash and case windows, 2-pane lower sashes to 11 Forest Road; replacement timber windows to 9 Forest Road. Grey slate roof with decorative terracotta ridge. Stone skews. Coped gablehead stacks and stack breaking pitch to rear, with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIORS: not seen 2000.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: coped rough-faced grey granite walls surmounted by railings to SW, gates to centre; piers flanking to left and right (that to left shared with 13-19 Forest Road), grey granite shaft swept up from plinth, rough-faced neck surmounted by scrolled cap; brick coped rubble walls to remainder.