14 Forest Road, Aberdeen

Arthur Clyne, architect, John Morgan, builder; 1896. 2-storey and attic, 4-bay double villa. Coursed rough-faced grey granite ashlar, contrasting pale grey tooled and finely finished margins. Base course; ground floor cill course; dividing band course; moulded 1st floor cill course; eaves course; parapet between gables of principal elevation.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; 4-bay, comprising 2 2-bay mirrored, semi-detached villas; doorways to 2 centre bays at ground floor, reveals waisted towards base, decorative volute brackets supporting lintels above, pilastered panelled timber doors, flanked by glazed panels, letterbox fanlights, window to each bay of 1st floor above. 3-light canted windows through ground and 1st floors of bays to outer left and right, forming balcony to attic floor; pedimented attic floor flanked by 2 deep scrolls, window centred to each (replacement glazing to 14 Forest Road), scrolled acroteria to pediment, sunflower patera centred in each. Skylights to centre of attic.

NW ELEVATION: gabled; lean-to addition to right of ground floor, panelled door with window above to left return.

SW ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; 4-bay; ground floor not seen 2000; single storey and attic wings adjoining to left and right, with 3-light piend-roofed dormer to each, regular fenestration to 1st floor; 2 canted dormers to centre of attic floor, with skylights above, flanked to outer left and right by broad rectangular dormers with catslide roofs.

SE ELEVATION: gabled; lean-to addition to left, doorway with window above to right return.

2-pane PVCu sash and case windows to 14 Forest Road; timber sash and case windows to 16 Forest Road. Grey slate roof with decorative terracotta ridge. Stone skews. Coped gablehead stacks and stack breaking pitch to rear, with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIORS: not seen 2000.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: coped rough-faced grey granite walls to NE, gates to left and right; single gatepier to outer left, grey granite shaft swept up from plinth, rough-faced neck surmounted by scrolled cap; brick and granite coped rubble walls to remainder.