South Duthie Lodge, 72 Rubislaw Den South, Aberdeen

South Duthie Lodge, located at 72 Rubislaw Den South in Aberdeen, is a former West Lodge to Duthie Park, likely designed by John Rust around 1883. This single storey and attic building features two bays and showcases Scots baronial detailing. It is constructed from tooled coursed dark grey granite, accented with finely finished contrasting light grey long and short dressings. Key architectural elements include a base course, chamfered cills and reveals, stepped hoodmoulds with nailhead label stops, long and short quoins that are stop-chamfered, crowstepped gables, and stone finials at the apexes.

The south elevation is asymmetrical, featuring a three-light canted window on the ground floor of an advanced gabled bay to the left. Above this, there is a hexagonal-headed window on the first floor, and the parapet is stepped up to the center, which has a lion rampant crest inset. To the right, there is a circular-plan entrance tower at the re-entrant angle, with a roll-moulded doorway at the center of the ground floor, accessed by a flight of stone steps. Narrow windows flank the entrance, and a lion rampant shield is set in the hoodmould above. A hexagonal-headed window is located on the first floor above the entrance. The eaves course is scalloped and moulded, and the tower is topped with a conical fishscale roof and weathervane. To the right, a recessed bay has a window at the center of the ground floor and a gableted oculus breaking the eaves above.

The east elevation features a gable with a bipartite window at the center of the ground floor and a hexagonal-headed window set in the gablehead. The north elevation is asymmetrical, with a gabled bay to the right and a lean-to addition on the ground floor, flanked by a window to the left and a hexagonal-headed window in the gablehead. A flat-roofed addition from 1938 is adjoining to the left, with piend-roofed dormers in the attic. The west elevation has irregular openings on the ground floor and piend-roofed dormers in the attic.

The building predominantly has timber sash and case windows, with some PVCu windows at the rear. The roof is covered with green-grey graded slate and features tiled ridges, stone skews with beaked skewputts, and corniced ridge stacks with octagonal cans. Decorative cast-iron rainwater goods with top hoppers are also present.

Inside, the lodge has a simple 1930s interior that includes Art Deco door furniture and a bathroom. The gatepiers and boundary walls consist of square-plan gatepiers with pyramidal caps to the south, low coped walls between, and rubble walls for the remainder.