36, 38 Rubislaw Den South, Aberdeen

W and J Smith and Kelly, 1899. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay villa. Tooled coursed grey granite with contrasting light grey long and short dressings finely finished to margins of S elevation; coursed Aberdeen bond granite rubble to remainder. Base course; long and short quoins; overhanging eaves; timber bargeboards.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 2-leaf panelled timber door in chamfered doorway to centre bay of ground floor, fanlight above, single window to 1st floor with projecting cill and iron brattishing, rectangular dormer to attic floor; tripartite windows to ground and 1st floors of flanking bay to right; gabled bay advanced to left, 5-light canted window to ground floor, with corniced parapet, tripartite window to 1st floor, harled and half-timbered gablehead with 4-light oriel advanced on brackets to centre.

E ELEVATION: asymmetrical; irregular fenestration; gabled bay to left, single storey wing advanced to outer right.

N ELEVATION: not seen 2000.

W ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled bay advanced to right, single windows to left at ground and 1st floors, later 20th century flat-roofed glazed timber porch on granite plinth reached by iron steps to centre; 2 windows to recessed bay to left.

Predominantly timber sash and case windows; leaded upper sashes to ground floor, small-pane upper sashes to 1st floor. Grey slate roof with lead ridges. Corniced gablehead and ridge stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative top hoppers.

INTERIORS: not seen 2000.

GATEPIERS, RAILINGS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: square-plan granite ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps to S, low stepped granite wall between surmounted by decorative iron railings; brick and rubble coped walls to remainder.