16 Queen's Road, Aberdeen

A villa dating from 1876, designed by Duncan McMillan, built as a two-storey, basement, and attic property with three bays, displaying Scots Baronial detailing. The principal, or southeast, elevation is asymmetrical, constructed of tooled coursed grey granite with contrasting light grey dressings, finely finished to the margins. Aberdeen bond rubble is used on the remaining elevations. The basement floor is rough-faced, and there is a base course. The southeast elevation features stop-chamfered reveals and crowstepped gables.

The southeast elevation has a segmental-arched doorway in the centre bay of the ground floor, with chamfered reveals, a replacement panelled timber door with a glazed upper panel, a stained-glass fanlight, and stone steps flanked by railings. A gableted window breaks the eaves of the first floor above the doorway, topped with a decorative stone finial. A canted window extends through the basement and ground floor of the bay to the right, with the basement floor light barred. The elevation also includes a piended slate roof and a gableted window breaking the eaves of the first floor above, topped with a stone finial. To the left, an advanced gabled bay has a canted window, again extending through the basement and ground floor (with the basement light barred), a piended slate roof, a bipartite window to the first floor, and a small Tudor-arched window set within a pointed relieving arch in the gablehead of the attic floor. This gable culminates in a spherical stone finial.

The northeast and southwest elevations are gabled, and blank. The northwest elevation has near-regular fenestration, with two basement-level doors. A segmental-arched stained-glass window is positioned near the centre of the first floor, flanked to the left and right by gableted windows which break the eaves. A modern metal flue runs near the centre through the ground and first floors.

The windows are predominantly timber sash and case, with two panes and four panes. A grey slate roof features a lead ridge. The roof has coped stone skews with beaked skewputts, and coped gablehead stacks with octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are visible.

The interior has been largely altered, but some original doors remain, along with nice mouldings on the ground floor.

The property is enclosed by square-plan gatepiers with pyramidal caps (shared with adjacent properties) to the southeast, and a low coped rough-faced granite wall between the gatepiers. The remainder of the boundary is formed by granite and brick coped rubble walls.