43 Forest Road, Aberdeen

Robert Gordon Wilson, 1899. 2-storey and attic villa with stylised Jacobean detailing. Rough-faced grey granite ashlar to Forest Road and Carlton Place elevations with contrasting pale grey dressings, granite rubble to remainder, finely finished to margins. Base course; moulded cill courses and string courses between floors; swept-down overhanging eaves; piend-roofed dormers to attic floor.

SW (FOREST ROAD) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled bay to left, with 3-light canted window through ground and 1st floors forming balcony to attic floor with scalloped crenellated parapet and spherical finials, round-arched window set in shaped gablehead, with square-plan obelisk finial to apex. Bipartite window to ground floor of bay to right, single window to 1st floor, bipartite window to attic floor.

SE ELEVATION: gable to left; variety of openings.

NE ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; 2-bay; gabled; window to left of ground floor, semi-circular-plan modern conservatory to right; regular fenestration to 1st floor; round-arched window set in gablehead.

NW (CARLTON PLACE) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 3-bay; round-arched doorway to ground floor of bay to left, with deep set door, window flanking to left, bipartite window to 1st floor above, 4-light dormer to attic floor; 2 gabled bays to right, regular fenestration to ground and 1st floors, small round-arched window with leaded glass and chamfered reveals centred in gablehead, cusped string moulding on gablehead stack.

Timber sash and case windows with small-pane upper sashes. Grey slate roof with metal ridges. Coped stone skews with square-plan obelisk skewputts to Forest Road and Carlton Place gables, blocked skewputts to remainder. Coped gablehead stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 2000.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped rough-faced granite walls to SW and NW, Aberdeen bond walls to remainder; single gatepiers to S with scrolled cap (shared with 39 and 41 Forest Road, see separate listing); 2 square-plan gatepiers to W, corniced with spherical finials.