Deeford, 59 Riverside Drive, Aberdeen

Deeford is a late 19th-century, two-storey and attic, three-bay baronial gothic villa, with subsequent additions and alterations. The villa is constructed of finely finished, coursed tooled grey granite with a base course, dividing band course, and a moulded modillion eaves cornice. It features long and short quoins and chamfered reveals.

The main, or south-east, elevation is asymmetrical. A square-plan, engaged entrance tower is centrally positioned, with six granite steps leading to a round-arched, decoratively moulded doorway with a hoodmould and a two-leaf panelled timber door incorporating plate glass in the fanlight. A bipartite window is located above the doorway on the first floor, and a tripartite window with a hoodmould is on the second floor. A single, hoodmoulded window is visible on the right return. The pyramidal roof is finished with an ironwork finial. A gabled bay to the left is slightly advanced, with a tripartite window on the ground floor and a quadripartite window above, also with a hoodmould. A pointed-arched window with a hoodmould is centred in the gablehead of the attic floor, topped with a decorative stone finial. A recessed bay to the right features a bipartite ground floor window and a gableted tripartite window breaking the eaves on the first floor with a decorative stone finial to the apex. A rectangular oriel is situated in the outer right angle, with a piended roof and ironwork finial.

The north-east elevation, which is also asymmetrical and gabled, has two bays and a slightly advanced flue that extends through the ground and first floors. The ground floor has regular fenestration, with a single window in the right-hand bay and a first-floor window above. An oriel window is situated in the outer left angle, as previously described. 20th-century additions are adjoined to the outer right.

The north-west elevation displays an asymmetrical, piend-roofed wing advanced to the right. 20th-century additions obscure bays to the left, along with a modern fire escape. A piend-roofed bipartite dormer is situated to the left of the attic floor, flanked to the right by a fire escape door and a two-pane skylight.

The south-west elevation, again asymmetrical and three-bayed, has a ground floor window in the centre bay, with a bipartite window above. A gabled bay to the right incorporates a decorative timber conservatory potting-shed to the centre of the ground floor, with a glazed panelled timber door and a window above. A bipartite window opening to the ground floor is in the bay to the left, with modern glazing. A gableted window breaks the eaves above, with a decorative stone finial to the apex. A rectangular bipartite dormer is centrally positioned in the attic floor. A two-storey wing adjoins the outer left, featuring a ground floor window and a bipartite first floor window.

The villa primarily features two-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered in grey slate with lead ridges. Corniced stone skews have gableted skewputts. Decoratively corniced granite gablehead stacks have circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are present.

The interior was not inspected during a 1999 survey.

Ancillary structures, gatepiers, and boundary walls are situated to the north-east of the villa. Stop-chamfered concrete gatepiers mark the entrance. Coped, coursed squared rough-faced granite walls are along the east side, a coursed granite wall to the north, sweeping upwards to become a flat-coped rubble wall to the north-west and south. A brick-coped rubble wall is along the west side, enclosing a single-storey and attic ancillary structure with a boarded timber door, timber sash and case windows, a slate roof with a lead ridge, and a wallhead stack to the rear with octagonal cans.