68 Rubislaw Den North, Aberdeen

George Coutts, dated 1905. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay villa with gothic detailing. Tooled coursed grey granite ashlar finely finished to margins of S elevation; coursed dark grey granite rubble to remainder. Rough-faced base course; chamfered cills; dividing string course; swept-down overhanging eaves with timber bargeboards.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; pointed-arched doorway with chamfered reveals near-centre of ground floor, 2-leaf gothic panelled timber door, with iron bell-pull, 2 plaques above; mullion and transomed window flanking to right, tripartite window to right of 1st floor set in tall gable; broad 5-light canted bay advanced to left through ground and 1st floors breaking eaves with elegantly swept-down roof, gableted timber lucarne to centre of advanced slate roof, iron weathervane finial to apex.

E ELEVATION: gabled; asymmetrical; piend-roofed ingleneuk to left at ground floor, single window above, tall stair window flanking to right; wing adjoining to outer right.

N ELEVATION: not seen 2000.

W ELEVATION: gabled.

Predominantly timber casement windows with small-pane glazing band at top, and 2-pane below. Grey slate roof with lead ridge. Corniced gablehead stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: dining room with Tudor-style chimneypiece in ingleneuk; good door furniture (interior seen before 1991).

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: square-plan gatepiers to S, canted at necks and surmounted by shallow splayed circular-plan caps; low Aberdeen bond granite wall between; brick coped rubble walls to remainder, modern garage adjoining boundary wall to SE.