28 Rubislaw Den South, Aberdeen

George Coutts, 1895. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay villa with Jacobean detailing. Rough-faced coursed grey granite finely finished to margins of S elevation; Aberdeen bond rubble to remainder. Base course; dividing band course; stone transoms to S elevation; light grey long and short quoins; overhanging eaves; timber bargeboards.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; Tudor-arched doorway to centre bay at ground floor, chamfered reveals and stepped hoodmould, 2-leaf panelled timber door with decorative stained glass fanlight above, bipartite window to 1st floor; kneelered gable breaking eaves to bay to left, piend-roofed rectangular-plan tripartite window to ground floor, tripartite window to 1st floor above, arrowslit opening set in gablehead; curvilinear gabled bay advanced to right, 4-light canted window to ground floor, with stepped parapet forming balcony to 1st floor, tripartite window to 1st floor, squat tripartite window to attic floor.

E ELEVATION: gabled; window to centre of 1st floor. Wing adjoining to outer right.

N ELEVATION: asymmetrical; large bipartite window to centre bay; bay to right not seen 2000. Gabled wing advanced to left, with lean-to conservatory to right return, advanced turret to re-entrant angle, with doorway to ground floor and window above.

W ELEVATION: gabled.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows. Green-grey slate roof with terracotta ridges. Coped gablehead stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: mouldings survive; glazed inner door; decorative plasterwork ceiling to entrance hall, timber staircase with turned balusters.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: square-plan granite ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps to S, low coped ashlar walls between; granite and brick coped rubble walls to remainder.