8 Rubislaw Den South, Aberdeen

8 Rubislaw Den South is a villa built in 1903 by Robert Gordon Wilson. It is two stories high with an attic and features two bays. The exterior is made of tooled coursed grey granite ashlar, with contrasting light grey granite used for long and short dressings that are finely finished at the south elevation. The rest of the building is constructed from Aberdeen bond granite rubble. Notable architectural elements include a base course, a string course that forms the first-floor cill course, and overhanging eaves, along with long and short quoins.

The south elevation is asymmetrical, with a gabled bay that advances to the right. It has a four-light canted window that spans the ground and first floors, supporting an advanced half-timbered gablehead on oversized stone brackets. There is a bipartite window inset, and a doorway located in the flanking bay to the left, featuring chamfered reveals and a corniced lintel with a light grey granite keystone above. The entrance consists of a two-leaf panelled timber door with a deeply chamfered angle to the outer left, which has a window at the center of the chamfer, and is flanked on the right by another window. Above, there is a bipartite window on the first floor and a piend-roofed tripartite dormer in the attic.

The east elevation is gabled and features a modern satellite dish at the center. The north elevation was not visible in 2000. The west elevation has a gabled section to the right and a single-storey addition to the left. It includes a tall stair window near the center and irregular fenestration throughout the rest of the elevation.

The windows are timber sash and case, with plate glass in the lower sashes and nine-pane upper sashes. The roof is covered with purple-grey slate and has lead ridges, along with gablehead and wallhead stacks that have circular cans. The property also features cast-iron rainwater goods.

The gatepiers and boundary walls consist of square-plan gatepiers with pyramidal caps on the south side, which are shared with adjacent properties. There are low coped granite ashlar walls between the gatepiers, and granite and brick coped rubble walls for the remainder.