59 Queen's Road, Aberdeen

59 Queen's Road in Aberdeen is a villa designed by Marshall Mackenzie in 1896. This two-storey building features a basement and attic, with a rectangular plan and three bays. The exterior is made of rough-faced coursed grey granite ashlar, with finely finished dressings on the northwest elevation, while the rest of the building is constructed from granite rubble. It has a cill course on the ground and first floors, long and short rusticated quoins, and an eaves course with a cornice.

The principal northwest elevation is symmetrical, featuring a decorative doorpiece in the centre bay at the ground floor. This includes Tuscan columns that support a rusticated entablature and cornice, a round-arched doorway with rusticated voussoirs, and fluted panels beside a replacement glazed timber door. Above the door is a plain fanlight with a dentil moulded cornice. The flanking bays on the left and right have tripartite windows at the basement and ground floor, while the first floor has regular fenestration.

The southwest elevation is gabled and blank, with a granite bridge link to 61 and 63 Queen's Road at the first floor level. The southeast elevation is mostly obscured by modern additions. The northeast elevation is also gabled, featuring modern additions in the centre and an infilled opening off-centre to the right of the gablehead.

The windows are predominantly replacement timber sash and case, with two-pane and four-pane designs. The roof is covered with replacement grey slate and has a lead ridge. The stone skews have blocked skewputts, and there are corniced gablehead stacks with octagonal cans. Rainwater goods are made of cast iron and PVCu.

Inside, the villa has been largely remodelled for use as a hotel and restaurant. The property also features corniced square-plan rough-faced granite gatepiers on the northwest side, which are shared with adjacent properties. Low coped walls between the gatepiers are topped with later-added railings, while the remaining boundary walls are made of granite and brick coped rubble.