Westburn House, Aberdeen

Westburn House in Aberdeen was designed by Archibald Simpson in 1839. It is a single-storey building with a sunken basement to the east and has a rectangular plan with three bays. A later addition from the 19th century features a verandah. The exterior is made of stuccoed brick with a granite base course, an eaves course, and overhanging eaves.

The west elevation, which is the principal facade, is symmetrical and features a pedimented tetrastyle porch that is advanced to the centre. This porch is supported by Tuscan columns and is accessed by four stone steps. It has a panelled two-leaf timber door with a fanlight, although the door is boarded-up. There are windows in the flanking bays on either side.

The south elevation is also symmetrical and consists of five bays. It has a decorative verandah that oversails the ground floor, supported by spiral iron columns with pierced decorative brackets. The centre features a gabled entrance with stone steps and ironwork railings. There is a three-light bowed bay in the middle, with regular fenestration in the two bays on either side.

The east elevation is asymmetrical and has four bays. It includes a doorway in the penultimate bay to the right, which is corniced with consoles and features a timber door with a small-pane fanlight. To the right of this doorway, stone steps lead down to a timber door in the basement, and there is a window to the right of the basement. The remaining bays of the ground floor have regular fenestration.

The north elevation is symmetrical and consists of three bays. It features a variety of doorways and windows at the basement level, with a gabled bay advanced to the centre. This bay has a tripartite window on the ground floor, with windows centred in the gablehead above and one window in each flanking bay.

The windows were boarded-up in 1999. The roof is piended with grey slate and has lead ridges, with coped stacks breaking the pitch. The building has cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen in 1999. There are thistle-capped iron railings enclosing the basement on the north side.