45 Queen's Road, Aberdeen

45 Queen's Road, Aberdeen is a pair of semi-detached villas built in 1895 to the designs of architect Marshall Mackenzie and builder John Morgan. Later additions and alterations have been made to the property.

The villas are two storeys with a basement and attic, and are constructed from rough-faced coursed grey granite ashlar, with finely finished pale grey margins to the north-west (principal) elevation. The remaining elevations are of coursed granite rubble. Features include a ground floor cill course and a dividing band course, with moulded cills to the north-west elevation.

The north-west elevation is symmetrical, mirroring the two villas. It has four bays, with broad round-arched doorways in the centre bays of the ground floor. These doorways have waisted jambs, moulded impost detail, and finely finished voussoirs with a keystone. The doorways contain deeply recessed timber doors with small-pane glazing and broad small-pane fanlights. First-floor windows are above the doorways, and large gabled dormers are set into the mansard roof at attic level. The outer bays are gabled, with three-light canted windows to the ground floor, and a parapet enclosing a balcony to the first floor. Tripartite windows are found on the first floor, with the attic floor slightly advanced on corbel brackets and featuring tripartite windows centred in gableheads. Queenpost details are visible, along with overhanging eaves and iron sunflower finials to the apexes.

The south-west elevation is gabled, and the south-east elevation is near-symmetrical, with a full-height basement. The basement floor has doorways in the centre two bays, flanked by bipartite windows. The ground floor has two windows in the centre two bays, with a projecting timber lean-to oriel balcony adjoining the outer bays. The first floor has regular fenestration with bipartite windows, and the attic floor has two seven-light dormers with catslide roofs. The north-east elevation is gabled and includes a window to the centre of both the ground and first floors.

Most windows are timber sash and case windows, with plate glass or two-pane lower sashes and small-pane upper sashes. Some replacement glazing has been done on the south-east elevation. The roof is covered with grey slate, with a terracotta ridge. Stone skews have blocked skewputts, and coped gableheads and stacks break the pitch with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are present.

The interiors were not inspected in 2000.

The property is fronted by square-plan, rough-faced granite gatepiers, shared with adjacent villas, with low coped walls between. Granite coped rubble walls divide the gardens to the north-west, while high brick coped rubble walls are located to the south, sweeping down to the boundary.