1 Rubislaw Den South, Aberdeen

Arthur Clyne, circa 1900. 2-storey and attic, 4-bay double villa comprising 2 2-bay mirrored houses. Rough faced granite finely finished to margins of principal elevation, grey granite to ground floor, pink granite to 1st floor; Aberdeen-bond rubble to remainder. Base course; ground floor cill course; tooled dividing band course forming 1st floor cill course.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; 2 doorways to centre bays of ground floor, with sunken fillet below lintels, pilastered timber doors, panelled, flanked by glazed panels, letterbox fanlights, window above each to 1st floor; shallow rectangular-plan tripartite windows with banded rustication through ground and 1st floors of bays to outer left and right, breaking eaves with crenellated parapets; bipartite flat-roofed dormers to attic floor above, skylights to central bays between.

W ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled; single storey wing adjoining to right of ground floor, irregular fenestration to remainder.

S ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; doorways to centre 2 bays at ground floor, flat-roofed porch addition to right, regular fenestration to remainder, single storey wings to outer left and right; 4 rectangular dormers to attic floor.

E ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled; single storey wing adjoining to left of ground floor; canted window (possibly oriel) to centre of 1st floor.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows; some PVCu windows to attic and rear S elevation. Grey slate roof with decorative terracotta ridge. Stone skews with blocked skewputts. Coped gablehead and wallhead stacks and stacks breaking pitch, circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIORS: not seen 2000.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped granite boundary walls to N, rubble walls to remainder.