Maryfield West Nursing Home, 31 Queen's Road, Aberdeen

Brown & Watt, 1892; later additions and alterations. 2-storey, basement and attic, 3-bay villa. Rough-faced grey granite with finely finished margins to NW elevation; coursed granite rubble to remainder. Contrasting dark grey base course; ground and 1st floor cill course; pilastered mullions to 1st floor extending to form cornice below eaves course; overhanging eaves.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; doorway to centre of ground floor, reached by stone steps flanked by low splayed wall, finely finished geometric squat pilasters flanking fanlight and supporting architrave, 2-leaf panelled timber door with letterbox fanlight, window to centre of 1st floor; bipartite windows to bay to right at ground and 1st floor, slender pilastered mullion to 1st floor; broad canted bay through ground and 1st floors of bay to left, window to each facet, piended roof.

SW ELEVATION: blank; flue advanced to centre from basement to eaves.

SE ELEVATION: centre bay obscured by modern additions; canted window through basement and ground floor of bay to right, bipartite window to 1st floor; regular fenestration to bay to left.

NE ELEVATION: flues advanced to left and right, window to centre of 1st floor.

Predominantly 2-pane and 4-pane timber sash and case windows. Piended slate roof with lead ridges. Corniced wallhead stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 2000.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: square-plan gatepiers to NW (shared with adjacent properties), corniced necks and shallow pyramidal caps; low coped wall between; granite and brick coped rubble walls to remainder.