21 Albyn Place, Aberdeen

Earlier 19th century; additions and alterations G Bennett Mitchell, 1929. 2-storey, basement and attic, 3-bay classical villa now part of Albyn Hospital. Tooled coursed granite finely finished to margins and dressings. Ashlar Base course; architraved windows to ground floor; 1st floor cill course; eaves course and blocking course; strip quoins; piend-roofed canted dormers.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; flat-roofed porch advanced to centre bay of ground floor, supported on Ionic columns, ashlar steps lead to 2-leaf glazed timber door with fanlight above; tripartite windows with panelled aprons flanking to left and right; regular fenestration to 1st floor; skylight to centre of attic floor, flanked to left and right by dormers. Recessed wings adjoining to outer left and right (see below).

W ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled; piend-roofed 3-storey wing adjoining to left, regular fenestration to left return; corrugated perspex addition to outer right.

S ELEVATION: ground floor not seen (2000). Bowed bay to right; regular fenestration to 1st floor, rectangular dormer to centre of attic floor, flanked by 2 canted dormers; 1929 addition, G Bennett Mitchell to outer left, canted windows through each floor.

E ELEVATION: gabled; obscured by 1929 additions; brick faced at ground floor; window to 2nd and attic floors of right return; square-plan tower to re-entrant angle to right, doorway to right return, roof breaking eaves.

Predominantly timber sash and case windows with small-pane upper sashes. Grey slate roof with lead ridge. Coped stone skews. Coped gablehead stacks with circular and octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 2000.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped ashlar and rubble boundary walls shared with 22-23 and 24 Albyn Place (see separate listings); square-plan piers at angles; high coped rubble walls to rear.