10 Forest Road Including Boundary Walls And Railings, Aberdeen

10 Forest Road, Aberdeen, is a category C listed building comprising a two-storey terrace with basement and attic, along with boundary walls and railings. Designed by Matthews & Mackenzie in 1877, it represents a 13-bay L-plan terrace of French influence.

The building is constructed in tooled coursed granite with finely finished dressings. The northwest and southwest elevations employ granite rubble. A rough-faced base course, architraved openings, ground and first floor cill courses, an eaves course, and a pierced parapet are consistent features. Gableted rectangular dormers punctuate the attic floor. The roof is grey slate mansard with lead ridges, stone skews, and coped ridge stacks with octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods run throughout.

The northeast (Forest Road) elevation is asymmetrical across its 13 bays. Twelve bays to the right contain 6 two-bay flats arranged in mirrored pairs, each with regularly placed bipartite windows to the basement floor. At ground floor level, pairs of doorways serve each flat, accessed by double-width flights of steps flanked by distinctive iron railings. The outer doors are two-leaf panelled timber with letterbox fanlights; inner doors are panelled and glazed. Bipartite windows flank the doorways to left and right. First floor fenestration is regular throughout, with regularly placed dormers to the attic floor.

The bay to the outer left is 6 Queen's Gate, with stepped-up floor levels and bipartite windows to each floor. At attic level it breaks the parapet and eaves with a steeply pitched piended roof and contains two rectangular dormers and a small modern skylight. A circular-plan angle turret projects from the outer left corner, corbelled out above the base course. The turret has bipartite windows to the principal and first floors, breaking the eaves, and a blind parapet with recessed panels matching the pierced parapet of flanking bays. Its conical roof is covered in fishscale slates and topped with an iron weathervane.

A rectangular-plan oriel projects at the outer right angle, corbelled out at basement level. It contains a single window centred to both ground and first floors, with a pierced parapet above.

The northwest elevation is gabled with windows off-centre to the right at ground and first floor levels.

The southwest elevation displays rubble bays to the left with irregular door and window openings. A stair leads to a first floor doorway at the fourth bay from the left. A rectangular-plan brick addition adjoins the flanking bay to the right. Two ashlar bays are advanced to the outer right, with irregular openings to basement floor and a window to the right of the first floor. Two windows break the eaves with elongated piended roofs, with a single dormer centred between and a modern skylight to its left.

The southeast elevation is asymmetrical across 3 bays with stepped-up floor levels. Two bays to the left are advanced, with the bay to the right stepped forward. A stained glass squat window sits in the basement floor, a tall tripartite window above it, and a bipartite window breaking eaves with piended roof above that. A doorway to the right return features a pilastered doorpiece forming a shallow balcony with pierced stone parapet to the first floor, with a single window to the first floor and a window breaking eaves with piended roof above. The flanking bay to the left contains bipartite windows to basement and principal floors, a single window breaking eaves with piended roof above, and a piend-roofed rectangular dormer to the attic floor. The recessed bay to the right has a bipartite window to the basement, a single window to the principal floor, and a window breaking eaves with piended roof above. An angle turret projects at the outer right corner as described above.

Windows are predominantly two-pane timber sash and case. Four Forest Road features modern PVCu casement windows.

The interiors were not seen as of 2000.

Boundary walls are constructed of low rough-faced granite to the northeast and southeast elevations. Brick and granite coped rubble walls line the northwest and southwest elevations. Iron railings flank the steps to the doorways on the northeast elevation.