21 Albyn Place, Aberdeen

21 Albyn Place in Aberdeen is an earlier 19th-century classical villa that has undergone additions and alterations by G Bennett Mitchell in 1929. The building is two stories high, with a basement and attic, and features three bays. It is constructed from finely finished, tooled coursed granite, with an ashlar base course and architectural details including architraved windows on the ground floor, a cill course on the first floor, an eaves course, a blocking course, strip quoins, and piend-roofed canted dormers.

The north elevation is symmetrical, with a flat-roofed porch that projects from the center bay of the ground floor, supported by Ionic columns. Ashlar steps lead up to a two-leaf glazed timber door topped with a fanlight. There are tripartite windows with panelled aprons on either side, and regular window placement on the first floor. A skylight is located in the center of the attic floor, flanked by dormers. Recessed wings extend to the outer left and right.

The west elevation is asymmetrical and features a gabled design with a piend-roofed three-storey wing on the left side, which has regular fenestration on its left return. To the outer right, there is a corrugated perspex addition.

The south elevation is partially obscured, with the ground floor not visible as of 2000. It includes a bowed bay on the right side and regular window placement on the first floor, along with a rectangular dormer in the center of the attic floor, flanked by two canted dormers. The 1929 addition by G Bennett Mitchell is on the outer left, featuring canted windows on each floor.

The east elevation is gabled and obscured by the 1929 additions. The ground floor is brick-faced, with a window on the second and attic floors of the right return. There is a square-plan tower at the re-entrant angle to the right, with a doorway on the right return and a roof that breaks the eaves.

The building predominantly features timber sash and case windows with small-pane upper sashes. The roof is covered in grey slate with a lead ridge, and it has coped stone skews, coped gablehead stacks with circular and octagonal cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen in 2000. The boundary walls consist of low coped ashlar and rubble walls shared with 22-23 and 24 Albyn Place, featuring square-plan piers at the corners and high coped rubble walls at the rear.