Whinhill House, 1 Fonthill Terrace, Aberdeen

Brown and Watt, 1900. 2-storey and attic, 2-bay Freestyle villa with later additions and alterations. Tooled coursed granite finely finished to margins. Base course; 1st floor cill course; long and short dressings and quoins; overhanging eaves with bargeboards; open half-timbered detail to gables; Art Nouveau gargoyles.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; deeply chamfered doorway to ground floor of bay to left, 2-leaf panelled timber door reached by 2 stone steps, single-pane fanlight, hoodmould; bipartite window to 1st floor above; 5-light canted window to ground floor of advanced gabled bay to right, forming balcony at 1st floor, 2 gargoyles; tripartite window to 1st floor; horizontal 2-pane window set in gablehead. Outer left angle chamfered, 3 glazed arrowslit openings to ground floor, glazed round-arched arrowslit opening to 1st floor, corbelled angle turret above, with gargoyles, faux crenellated parapet, decorative Art Nouveau cast-iron finial.

NW ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled; irregularly placed openings.

SW ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 3-bay; piend-roofed service wing advanced to left, with dormer to attic; modern conservatory to ground floor of flanking bay to right, window to 1st floor, above, rectangular dormer to attic; 4-light rectangular-plan window through ground and 1st floors of outer right angle, with gargoyle to 1st floor.

SE ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; gabled; tripartite stair window to centre, stepped up from right to left, 3-pane round-arched fanlight above; chamfered outer right angle with angle turret (see above); rectangular-plan window to outer left angle (see above).

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows. Piended grey slate roof with lead ridges and rooflights. Coped gablehead stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1999.

GATES, GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: square-plan granite gatepiers to N of house with tooled necks reading "WHINHILL HOUSE", and pyramidal caps. Simple cast-iron gate. Low coped granite walls to NE and SE, swept up with Aberdeen snecking to E.