26 Forest Road, Aberdeen

William Beattie, 1908. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay villa on raised terrace. Rough-faced coursed grey granite, finely finished to margins at NE elevation; granite rubble to remainder. Base course; 1st floor cill course; overhanging eaves; timber bargeboards; half-timbered gableheads with pebble dash.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; doorway to centre of ground floor, 2-leaf panelled timber door flanked by glazed and leaded panels and fanlight, leaded inner door, window to right of ground floor, timber balcony oversailing, window to left of 1st floor, flanked to right by doorway with upper sash; Venetian dormer to attic; polygonal angle tower through ground and 1st floors of outer right angle, surmounted by steeply swept spire with weathervane; gabled bay advanced to left, 4-light canted window to ground floor, with piended roof surmounted by iron brattishing, tripartite window to 1st floor above, bipartite leaded window set in gablehead.

NW ELEVATION: gabled.

SW ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 3-bay; regular fenestration to ground and 1st floors of 2 bays to right, timber conservatory to ground floor of bay to left, bipartite window to 1st floor above, rectangular dormer to attic floor.

SE ELEVATION: doorway to centre of ground floor, flanked to left by 2 irregular windows and to right by 2 round-arched stained glass windows, decorative stained glass window to 1st floor above, flanked to left by small single window, gablet off-centre to right.

2-pane timber sash and case windows to ground floor, sash and case windows with small pane upper sashes to 1st floor. Rosemary tiled roof with pierced terracotta ridges. Coped gablehead stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 2000.

STEPS, GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: stone steps flanked by low walls surmounted by spherical finials to NE; square-plan obelisk gatepiers with shallow pyramidal caps to NE, low granite walls between; brick and granite coped rubble walls to remainder.