28 Rubislaw Den South, Aberdeen

28 Rubislaw Den South is a villa built in 1895 by George Coutts, featuring two storeys and an attic with three bays and Jacobean detailing. The villa is constructed from rough-faced coursed grey granite, which is finely finished at the margins of the south elevation, while the rest of the building is made of Aberdeen bond rubble. It includes a base course, a dividing band course, stone transoms on the south elevation, light grey long and short quoins, overhanging eaves, and timber bargeboards.

The south elevation is asymmetrical, featuring a Tudor-arched doorway in the center bay at ground level, with chamfered reveals and a stepped hoodmould. The doorway has a two-leaf panelled timber door topped with a decorative stained glass fanlight. Above, there is a bipartite window on the first floor. To the left, a kneelered gable breaks the eaves, with a piend-roofed rectangular-plan tripartite window at ground level and another tripartite window above it. There is also an arrowslit opening set in the gablehead. To the right, a curvilinear gabled bay is advanced, featuring a four-light canted window at ground level, with a stepped parapet that forms a balcony above, and a tripartite window on the first floor, along with a squat tripartite window in the attic.

The east elevation is gabled with a window at the center of the first floor, and there is a wing adjoining to the outer right. The north elevation is asymmetrical, showcasing a large bipartite window in the center bay, while the bay to the right is not visible. An advanced gabled wing is to the left, with a lean-to conservatory on the right return and an advanced turret at the re-entrant angle, which includes a ground floor doorway and a window above. The west elevation is also gabled.

The villa features predominantly two-pane timber sash and case windows, a green-grey slate roof with terracotta ridges, coped gablehead stacks with circular cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside, there are surviving mouldings, a glazed inner door, decorative plasterwork on the ceiling of the entrance hall, and a timber staircase with turned balusters.

The property is complemented by square-plan granite ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps on the south side, low coped ashlar walls between them, and granite and brick coped rubble walls surrounding the remainder of the site.