Willowbank House, Willowbank Road, Aberdeen

Late 18th century, additions and alterations by J & W Smith, circa 1843. 2-storey, basement and attic, 4-bay, T-plan classical villa. Coursed grey granite with finely finished dressings. Base course; raised margins; projecting cills; strip quoins; overhanging eaves to 19th century gables; canted dormers to attic floor.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; flat-roofed, advanced Doric porch, painted white, to ground floor of penultimate bay to left, round-arched niche to inside left return, ashlar steps to centre and right, 2-leaf panelled timber door, flanked by glazed panels, letterbox fanlight; window to 1st floor above doorway, window to basement, ground and 1st floors of flanking bay to right, dormers to attic floor of 2 centre bays; gabled bay advanced to outer left, window to basement, windows to centre of ground and 1st floors set in recessed segmental arch; gabled bay advanced to outer right, tripartite window with balcony to ground floor, window to centre of 1st floor.

NW ELEVATION: symmetrical; gabled; flat-roofed bowed bay to centre of ground floor, 3 windows, eaves blocking course; remainder blank.

SW ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 4-bay; flat-roofed porch to basement in penultimate bay to right, irregular fenestration in bay above; regular fenestration to 2 flanking bays to left, dormer to attic of penultimate bay to left; gabled bay advanced to outer right, flat-roofed addition advanced to ground floor adjoining rubble boundary walls, windows to left and right returns.

SE ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; 3-bay; regular fenestration to basement, ground and 1st floors.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof with lead ridges. Stone skews. Corniced wallhead, gablehead and ridge stacks with circular and octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: decorative Ionic columned entrance hall and staircase; some skirting boards, dado rails, cornicing and fireplaces survive.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low granite coped rubble walls to N; high rubble coped rubble walls to remainder.