26 Forest Road, Aberdeen

26 Forest Road in Aberdeen is a villa designed by William Beattie in 1908. This two-storey and attic building features three bays and is situated on a raised terrace. The exterior is primarily made of rough-faced coursed grey granite, with finely finished margins on the northeast elevation, while the rest of the building is constructed from granite rubble. Notable architectural elements include a base course, a first-floor cill course, overhanging eaves, timber bargeboards, and half-timbered gableheads with pebble dash.

The northeast elevation, which is the principal façade, is asymmetrical. It has a central doorway on the ground floor, which consists of a two-leaf panelled timber door flanked by glazed and leaded panels and a fanlight. Inside, there is a leaded inner door, a window to the right on the ground floor, and a timber balcony that oversails. To the left on the first floor, there is a window flanked by a doorway with an upper sash. The attic features a Venetian dormer, and there is a polygonal angle tower on the outer right, extending through the ground and first floors, topped with a steeply swept spire and a weathervane. An advanced gabled bay to the left has a four-light canted window on the ground floor, a piended roof with iron brattishing above it, and a tripartite window on the first floor, with a bipartite leaded window set in the gablehead.

The northwest elevation is gabled, while the southwest elevation is asymmetrical with three bays. It has regular fenestration on the ground and first floors in the two bays to the right, a timber conservatory on the ground floor of the left bay, and a bipartite window above it on the first floor, along with a rectangular dormer in the attic. The southeast elevation features a central doorway on the ground floor, flanked on the left by two irregular windows and on the right by two round-arched stained glass windows. Above, there is a decorative stained glass window on the first floor, flanked on the left by a small single window and a gablet off-centre to the right.

The villa has two-pane timber sash and case windows on the ground floor and sash and case windows with small pane upper sashes on the first floor. The roof is covered with rosemary tiles and features pierced terracotta ridges. The gablehead stacks are coped and have circular cans, and the building is equipped with cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen in 2000. The property includes stone steps flanked by low walls topped with spherical finials on the northeast side, square-plan obelisk gatepiers with shallow pyramidal caps, and low granite walls between them. The remaining boundary walls are made of brick and granite coped rubble.