53 Queen's Road, Aberdeen

Probably A Marshall Mackenzie, architect and John Morgan, builder, 1899; later additions and alterations. 2-storey basement and attic, 3-bay villa now linked to 49 and 51 Queen's Road (see separate listing). Rough faced coursed grey granite ashlar, finely finished to margins at NW elevation; coursed granite rubble to remainder. Pink granite ground floor cill course; pink granite dividing band course; moulded cills to NW elevation.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; broad round-arched doorway to centre bay of ground floor, moulded impost detail, voussoirs alternating between rough-faced and finely finished granite, keystone detail, modern glazed door; bipartite window to 1st floor above; single bipartite rectangular dormer to attic floor. Gabled bay flanking to right; 4-light canted window to ground floor, with parapet enclosing balcony to 1st floor; bipartite window to 1st floor; attic floor slightly advanced on corbel brackets, tripartite window centred in gablehead, overhanging eaves, iron sunflower finial to apex. Bull's-eye window to ground floor of bay to right; oversized angle turret to 1st floor, breaking eaves, window to centre, conical fishscale tiled roof with lead finial.

SW ELEVATION: gabled; window to centre at 1st floor.

SE ELEVATION: harled modern addition obscuring ground floor; window to centre of 1st floor, flanked by 2 Italianate tripartite round-arched windows; rectangular dormers and dormers with catslide roofs to attic floor.

NE ELEVATION: gabled; obscured by modern link to 51 Queen's Road.

Predominantly sash and case windows with plate glass or 2-pane lower sashes and small-pane upper sashes. Grey slate roof with terracotta ridge. Stone skews with blocked skewputts. Coped gablehead stacks and stacks breaking pitch with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: some timber panelling, chimneypieces, and mouldings survive.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: square-plan rough-faced granite gatepiers to NW (shared with adjacent villas), with low coped walls between; granite and brick coped rubble walls to remainder.