44 Fountainhall Road, Aberdeen

44 Fountainhall Road in Aberdeen is a pair of semi-detached villas built between 1884 and 1887 by George Coutts. The buildings are two stories tall and feature four bays, constructed from tooled coursed granite ashlar with finely finished dressings on the southwest elevation, while the rest is made of Aberdeen bond granite rubble. Notable architectural features include projecting cills, corniced doorways with consoles, pilastered panelled timber doors with letter-box fanlights, a dividing band course, a first-floor cill course, and an eaves course.

On the southwest elevation facing Fountainhall Road, No 44 is asymmetrical, with a doorway located in the left bay of the ground floor and a single window above on the first floor. To the right, there is a three-light bowed window spanning both floors, topped with a half-domed roof, fishscale slates, and decorative iron brattishing. The curvilinear gable breaks the eaves and is surmounted by a triangular pediment. No 46 is also asymmetrical, featuring a single window on both the ground and first floors of the left bay, and a similar three-light bowed window in the right bay, which has a broken segmental-arched pediment above. Additionally, there is a circular-plan tower at the outer left angle, with a doorway at the center of the ground floor, two narrow windows on the first floor, a domed roof covered in fishscale slate, and an iron finial at the apex.

The southeast elevation is gabled, while the northeast elevation was not visible in 2000. The northwest elevation is asymmetrical and also gabled, with a stair window located off-center to the right between the ground and first floors. There is a three-bay addition that advances to the left, featuring irregular fenestration on the ground floor, two windows breaking the eaves on the left of the first floor, and a gabled bay on the right. A panelled timber door with a letterbox fanlight is located on the ground floor of the right return, with a window above it.

Modern glazing has been added to No 44, while No 46 retains two-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is made of grey slate with a lead ridge, and it features coped stone skews, corniced gablehead and ridge stacks with octagonal cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers.

The interiors were not seen in 2000. The property is bordered by a low granite boundary wall to the west, topped with railings, and coped rubble walls to the north.