15 King's Gate Including Gatepiers And Boundary Wall, Aberdeen

George Coutts, 1894. 2-storey and attic 4-bay gothic Arts and Crafts double villa. Rough-faced coursed grey granite finely finished to margins. Deep base course; ground floor and 1st floor cill course; dividing band course; eaves course.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; 4-bay, comprising 2 2-bay semi-detached houses. 3-light canted windows through ground and 1st floors forming balcony at attic floors of 2 centre bays, pedimented tripartite dormer to attic floor, nail-head terracotta tympana with cartouche to centre; decorative bracket at base of wallhead stack between. Segmental-arched doorways to ground floor of outer bays, reached by flight of stone steps, keystone detail, 2-leaf panelled timber doors with decorative stained-glass fanlights; keystoned oculus flanking doorways to outer left and right; rectangular bipartite oriel windows to 1st floor above, breaking eaves with steeply pitched French roof, gableted timber dormer inset, iron finial to apex of No 13.

W ELEVATION: asymmetrical; flat-roofed garage to left of ground floor, stair window above; 2-storey addition to outer right; curvilinear-gabled centre bay breaking eaves, segmental-arched opening to left of gablehead, irregular fenestration to bays to left.

S ELEVATION: not seen 2000.

E ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 2-storey addition to left, panelled timber doorway with letterbox fanlight to ground floor of right return, window above; curvilinear-gabled centre bay breaking eaves, stair window between ground and 1st floors; segmental-arched window above; panelled timber door reached by steps to right of ground floor.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows with geometrically glazed upper panes. Piended grey slate roof with lead ridges and flashings. Corniced wallhead and gablehead stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIORS: not seen 2000.

PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: square-plan corniced granite piers to NW and NE, low coped granite wall between; coped granite rubble dividing walls.