45 Queen's Road, Aberdeen

A Marshall Mackenzie, architect and John Morgan, builder, 1895; later additions and alterations. 2-storey basement and attic, 4-bay pair of semi-detached villas. Rough faced coursed grey granite ashlar, finely finished to contrasting pale grey margins at NW elevation; coursed granite rubble to remainder. Ground floor cill course; dividing band course; moulded cills to NW elevation.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; 4-bay comprising mirrored pair of 2-bay villas; 2 broad round-arched doorways to centre bays of ground floor, jambs waisted towards base, moulded impost detail above, finely finished voussoirs with keystone detail, doors deeply recessed, pilastered pair of small-pane glazed timber doors to each with broad small-pane fanlight; 2 windows to 1st floor above; 2 large gableted dormers set in mansard infill at attic floor. Gabled outer bays, 3-light canted windows to ground floor of each, with parapet enclosing balcony to 1st floor; tripartite windows to 1st floor; attic floor slightly advanced on corbel brackets, tripartite windows centred in gableheads, queenpost details and overhanging eaves, iron sunflower finials to apexes.

SW ELEVATION: gabled.

SE ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; full-height basement; doorways to centre 2 bays of basement floor, bipartite windows flanking to outer bays; 2 windows to centre 2 bays of ground floor with balcony adjoining projecting timber lean-to oriels to outer bays; regular fenestration to centre bays of 1st floor, bipartite windows flanking to outer bays; 2 7-light dormers with catslide roofs to attic floor.

NE ELEVATION: gabled; window to centre of ground and 1st floor.

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

INTERIORS: not seen 2000.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: square-plan rough-faced granite gatepiers to NW (shared with adjacent villas), with low coped walls between; granite coped rubble walls dividing gardens to NW; high brick coped rubble walls to S, swept down.