Hillside, 68A Rubislaw Den South, 68, Aberdeen

Hillside is a villa located at 68A Rubislaw Den South, built in 1902 by A H L Mackinnon. This two-storey, three-bay building features a rough-faced pink granite ground floor and a first floor made of tooled coursed grey granite with finely finished margins. It has a dividing string course, projecting cills, and overhanging eaves with timber bargeboards.

The south elevation is asymmetrical, showcasing a quadripartite window on the ground floor of the right bay and a bipartite window that breaks the eaves on the first floor. The central advanced gabled bay has a four-light canted window on the ground floor and a tripartite window above. To the left, there is a recessed entrance bay with an open timber porch that has been advanced and topped with a late 20th-century sun porch. The ground floor features a recessed segmental-arched roll-moulded doorway with a panelled timber door.

The east elevation is also asymmetrical, with a gabled bay on the left and a variety of window and door openings to the right. The north elevation presents an asymmetrical design with an advanced wing to the left and a lean-to addition on the ground floor, accompanied by a window to the right. The recessed bays to the right were not visible in 2000.

The west elevation is asymmetrical as well, featuring an open porch and sun porch to the right, a pair of windows on the ground floor of the left bay, and a single window on the first floor above. The villa predominantly has timber sash and case windows with four-pane upper sashes. The roof is covered with replacement Rosemary tiles and has terracotta ridges, along with corniced gablehead stacks that have circular cans and cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen in 2000. The property is complemented by square-plan rough-faced granite gatepiers with half-spherical caps to the south, low granite walls in between, and brick and granite coped rubble walls surrounding the remainder of the site.