61, 63 Queen's Road, Aberdeen

This is a two-storey, basement and attic, six-bay double villa, originally designed by Marshall Mackenzie in 1896 and later altered. It has been converted into a hotel. The building is constructed of rough-faced coursed grey granite with finely finished dressings. It features ground and first-floor cill and lintel courses, an eaves cornice, and an eaves blocking course.

The northwest (principal) elevation is symmetrical and comprises two mirrored three-bay villas. The basement and ground floors of the two central bays have tripartite windows. Single windows are positioned above these at the first floor. Elaborate doorpieces, featuring Tuscan columns with banded rustication, support panelled entablatures and deep cornices. The entrances are accessed via stone steps flanked by railings and include panelled timber doors with glazed upper panels and decoratively traceried letterbox fanlights. Pilastered windows are above the doorways, with narrow pediments breaking the blocking course and flanked by scrolls. Bipartite windows are found on the basement and first floors of the bays at the outer left and right, with single windows above on the first floor.

The southwest elevation is gabled and features a two-storey, piend-roofed addition in the centre. The fenestration is irregular, with a single window to the left return, and a small opening off-centre at the gablehead.

The southeast elevation is six bays wide and near-symmetrical, with regular fenestration to all floors of the two central bays. Canted windows with piended slate roofs project from the basement and ground floors of the flanking bays to the left and right. Bipartite windows are positioned on the basement and ground floors of the bays at the outer left and right, with regular fenestration above. Dormers are present on the attic floor. A late 20th-century addition adjoins the outer left side.

The northeast elevation is gabled and has various openings at basement level. A modern bridge link connects to 59 Queen's Road, located at the first floor.

The windows are predominantly timber sash and case, with plate glass lower sashes and small-pane upper sashes. The roof is covered in grey slate with lead ridges. Corniced gablehead and ridge stacks incorporate octagonal and circular cans. Rainwater goods are a mix of cast iron and PVCu.

The interior has been largely remodelled as a hotel in the late 20th century, but original timber staircases with balusters remain, along with decorative mouldings and cornices in some rooms.

Square-plan gatepiers form part of the boundary treatment to the northwest (shared with adjacent properties). Low walls are situated between them, with granite and brick coped walls completing the remainder of the boundary.