22 Forest Road, Aberdeen

22 Forest Road in Aberdeen is a villa built in 1893 by William Henderson. This two-storey and attic building features three bays and has a single-storey billiard room wing attached to the north. The exterior is made of rough-faced coursed grey granite ashlar, which is finely finished at the margins of the northeast elevation, while the rest of the building is constructed from coursed granite rubble. It has a rough-faced and finely finished base course, with cill and lintel courses at the ground and first floors, overhanging eaves, and timber bargeboards. The ground floor of the southeast elevation has architraved openings.

The northeast elevation, which is the principal facade, is asymmetrical. It showcases a distinctive doorpiece in the center bay of the ground floor, featuring a roll-moulded round-arched doorway with polished pink granite spheres in the spandrels, an unusual triple arcaded fanlight, and a round-arched panelled timber door. Above this, there is a window at the center of the first floor. To the left, there is a gabled bay, and to the right, an advanced section with bipartite windows on the ground, first, and attic floors, topped with delicate iron finials at the apexes. The single-storey gabled wing on the outer right has a tripartite window in the center, with stone mullions and transoms, deeply chamfered outer angles, round-arched window openings on each chamfer, and rectangular window panes with a foliate cartouche set in the tympana.

The northwest elevation features a gable, with the ground floor obscured by the single-storey wing that is advanced to the right, and a window on the left return. There is a squat tripartite window with leaded glass centered in the gablehead. The southwest elevation was not visible in 2000. The southeast elevation has a gable with a two-storey block advanced to the center, featuring an architraved doorway on the right return with a panelled timber door and a moulded parapet above.

The villa predominantly has two-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof with lead ridges, coped stone skews with scrolled skewputts, and corniced gablehead stacks with circular cans. The rainwater goods are made of cast iron and feature decorative iron hoppers.

The property also includes two pairs of obelisk granite gatepiers with shallow pyramidal caps on the northeast side, with low rough-faced granite walls in between. The remainder of the boundary is made up of rubble walls with brick and granite copings.