3 Queen's Gate, Aberdeen

Matthews & Mackenzie, 1882. 2-storey, basement and attic, 3-bay villa. Tooled coursed grey granite, finely finished to margins. Basement course rising to form moulded cill course at ground floor; long and short quoins in contrasting light grey granite; corniced architraved windows to ground and 1st floors, with pilastered mullions, Ionic capitals to ground floor; dividing band course; deep eaves course; overhanging eaves on modillion brackets.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; centre bay slightly advanced, Ionic columned porch advanced, entablature supporting diminutive Ionic columned balustrade forming 1st floor balcony; stone steps to pilastered doorway, 2-leaf panelled timber door with letterbox fanlight, narrow windows flanking to left and right, pilasters with channelled rustication flanking; pedimented bipartite window to centre bay of 1st floor. Bipartite windows slightly advanced through ground and 1st floors of flanking bays to left and right. 3 bipartite rectangular dormers to attic floor.

SW ELEVATION: asymmetrical; broad bay advanced to centre, window to 1st floor, single architraved window to ground floor of left return, bipartite window to 1st floor, irregular fenestration to right return.

SE ELEVATION: symmetrical; centre bay of basement floor advanced, single window to left and right, decorative iron stair leading down to garden from modern lean-to conservatory surmounting basement; tripartite windows slightly set back to left and right of basement and ground floors, forming balcony to 1st floor with geometric iron railings; tripartite window to centre of 1st floor, flanked to left and right by single windows; 3 rectangular dormers to attic floor.

NE ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; architraved bipartite window to ground floor, with pilastered mullion; advanced moulded cills to 1st floor windows, supported on elaborate stone brackets.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows. Piended grey slate roof with lead ridges. Corniced ridge stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: elaborate plaster ceilings; mosaic floor to porch; etched glass inner door (one pane replaced); panelled hall with timber fluted Ionic columns and pilasters, simple fire surround, swan neck pedimented overmantle with thistle to centre; dog leg stair, turned balusters and Ionic pilastered newel post; 9-light stained-glass stair window; service stair to W with iron balusters; panelled timber doors, some pilastered and pedimented; finely detailed room to E, highly decorative ceiling and frieze.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: squat square-plan rough-faced granite gatepiers and piers at angles to N, deeply stop-chamfered angles; low rough-faced granite walls flanking, railings removed. High granite and brick coped rubble walls to remainder.