2 Queen's Cross, Rubislaw, Aberdeen

Probably J Russell Mackenzie, circa 1875. Single storey, basement and attic, 3-bay cottage orne double villa. Tooled coursed grey granite ashlar, finely finished to margins. Base course; chamfered reveals; overhanging eaves; gableted dormers breaking eaves, shouldered bipartite windows with inset quatrefoil above; decorative bargeboards; timber fleur-de-lys to apex of gables.

SE (QUEEN'S CROSS) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled bay advanced to right, canted window through basement and ground floor, dentil-moulded cornice, Tudor-arched bipartite window above, with cusped tracery; 2 bays to left recessed; doorway to centre of ground floor, open gothic porch on slender cast-iron columns, 6 stone steps to glazed and panelled timber door with letterbox fanlight, dormer to attic floor above; gabled bay stepped-forward to left, window to ground floor, small Tudor-arched window set in gablehead above.

NE ELEVATION: not seen 2000.

NW ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 3-bay; basement floor not seen 2000. canted window to left of ground floor, single window to centre, 2 gableted dormers to attic floor above, bay to right blank.

SW ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 3-bay; gabled bay advanced to left, canted window through basement and ground floor, timber brattishing along piended roof, Tudor-arched bipartite window above, with cusped tracery, king-post detail to gablehead; open gothic porch to re-entrant angle to right on slender cast-iron columns, 7 stone steps to glazed and panelled timber door with letterbox fanlight, regular fenestration to flanking bay to right, 2 dormers to attic floor above.

Predominantly 2-pane and 4-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof with lead ridges and decorative iron brattishing to ridge of 2 Fountainhall Road. Coped gablehead and wallhead stacks with octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 2000.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped granite boundary walls, curved to Queen's Cross; square-plan coped piers at corners of Queen's Cross, Fountainhall Road and Carden Place; brick coped rubble wall to NW.