Whinhill House, 1 Fonthill Terrace, Aberdeen

Whinhill House is a two-storey and attic villa dating from 1900, designed by Brown and Watt, and built in the Scottish Freestyle style. The house is situated at 1 Fonthill Terrace, Aberdeen. The exterior is constructed of tooled coursed granite, finely finished to the margins. Features include a base course, first floor cill course, long and short dressings, quoins, overhanging eaves with bargeboards, open half-timbered details to the gables, and Art Nouveau gargoyles.

The principal, northeast elevation is asymmetrical. A deeply chamfered doorway, flanked by two stone steps, provides access to the ground floor. The doorway is fitted with a two-leaf panelled timber door and a single-pane fanlight, sheltered by a hoodmould. A bipartite window is positioned above the doorway on the first floor. An advanced gabled bay to the right incorporates a five-light canted window on the ground floor, creating a balcony on the first floor. Two gargoyles are present on this section. A tripartite window is located on the first floor, and a horizontal two-pane window is set into the gablehead. The outer left angle is chamfered, with three glazed arrowslit openings on the ground floor and a glazed round-arched arrowslit opening on the first floor. Above this is a corbelled angle turret with gargoyles, a faux crenellated parapet, and a decorative Art Nouveau cast-iron finial.

The northwest elevation is also asymmetrical with a gabled design and irregularly placed openings.

The southwest elevation presents a three-bay facade, with a piend-roofed service wing projecting to the left, featuring a dormer window to the attic. A modern conservatory occupies the ground floor of the bay to the right, with a window above, and a rectangular dormer to the attic. A four-light rectangular-plan window extends through the ground and first floors of the outer right angle, topped by a gargoyle.

The southeast elevation is near-symmetrical and gabled, with a tripartite stair window centrally positioned, stepped up from right to left, and featuring a three-pane round-arched fanlight above. A chamfered outer right angle incorporates the previously mentioned angle turret. A rectangular-plan window is positioned on the outer left angle.

The windows are predominantly timber sash and case, with two panes per sash. The roof is covered with piended grey slate, with lead ridges and rooflights. Coped gablehead stacks are topped with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are in place.

The interior of the house was not inspected in 1999.

To the north of the house stand square-plan granite gatepiers, with tooled necks inscribed with "WHINHILL HOUSE" and pyramidal caps. A simple cast-iron gate is also present. Low coped granite walls extend along the northeast and southeast sides, rising to Aberdeen snecking on the east.