Earl's Court Hotel, 96 Queen's Road, Aberdeen

The Earl's Court Hotel, located at 96 Queen's Road, Aberdeen, was designed by Robert Gordon Wilson of Ellis & Wilson and built in 1898. It features substantial additions and alterations from the 20th century. The building is a 2-storey villa with a basement and attic, originally 3 bays in width, exhibiting stylised Jacobean detailing. It is constructed of rough-faced coursed granite ashlar, with finely finished margins. The elevations are characterised by a base course, a dividing string course, an eaves course, an eaves blocking course, and stylised curvilinear gables.

The southeast (principal) elevation is asymmetrical. A gabled bay is slightly advanced to the left, and a bowed bay extends through the ground and first floors, each containing three windows. A parapet forms a balcony to the attic floor, complete with stylised crenellations, and a tripartite window sits within the gablehead. A central window is stepped-up and features a curved cornice. A window to the first floor of the central bay is present, along with a piend-roofed dormer to the attic floor. To the right, a 5-light canted window illuminates the ground floor, complemented by an acorn finial to the partially crenellated parapet, a tripartite window to the first floor, and a Jacobean gabled tripartite window to the attic, flanked by stylised scrolls.

The northeast elevation is gabled and contains a canted bay through the ground and first floors, with windows to the outer angles and returns. A modern addition adjoins the elevation to the outer right. The northwest elevation is largely obscured by modern additions, but presents a gabled bay to the right, with windows at ground and first floor levels.

The southwest elevation is also asymmetrical, with a gabled bay advanced to the left and three windows on both the ground and first floors. Round-arched windows are set into the gablehead at attic level. A triangular-plan entrance porch, constructed of finely finished pale grey ashlar, is situated in the re-entrant angle to the right. This porch features a round-arched doorway supported on diminutive columns, oval openings flanking the doorway, a cusped parapet with a central finial, and another oval opening to the right. A pair of bipartite windows with chamfered reveals and decorative leaded glass are set above the porch on the first floor, and piend-roofed dormers are present in the attic floor. A gabled bay is located to the outer right, with a pair of windows on both the ground and first floors, and a pair of smaller windows set into the gablehead.

The windows are a variety of timber sash and case designs. The roof is covered with grey slate and lead ridges, and features coped stone skews with oversized scrolled skewputts. Coped gablehead stacks incorporate circular cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods are fitted. The interior was not inspected in 2000.

Gatepiers of banded rough-faced granite, corniced with acorn and spherical finials, flank Aberdeen bond granite boundary walls with granite coping.