37 Queen's Road, Aberdeen

A pair of semi-detached villas, 39 and 41 Queen's Road, were designed by Marshall Mackenzie, architect, and built by John Morgan in 1895, with later additions and alterations. The buildings are two storeys plus a basement and attic, and are set within boundary walls and gatepiers.

The villas are constructed of rough-faced coursed grey granite ashlar, with finely finished margins to the north-west (principal) elevation, and coursed granite rubble elsewhere. The north-west elevation is symmetrical, presenting a mirrored pair of two-bay villas. The central bays feature broad round-arched doorways with waisted jambs, moulded impost detail, alternating rough-faced and finely finished granite voussoirs, keystones, deeply recessed timber panelled doors (with glazed panels for number 37, and a replacement small-pane glazed timber door for number 39), and broad small-pane fanlights above each doorway. There are two windows above, on the first floor. The outer bays are gabled, with three-light canted windows to the ground floor, each with a parapet enclosing a balcony on the first floor. Tripartite windows are found on the first floor, with the attic floor slightly advanced on corbel brackets and tripartite windows centred in the gableheads, incorporating queenpost details, overhanging eaves, and iron sunflower finials to the apexes.

The south-west elevation is gabled with irregular window placement, and includes a doorway to the basement floor. The south-east elevation features various lean-to additions, near-regular fenestration, doorways to the ground floor, and four rectangular dormers with catslide roofs to the attic floor. The north-east elevation is gabled.

The windows are predominantly timber sash and case, with plate glass or two-pane lower sashes and small-pane upper sashes. The roof is covered in grey slate with a terracotta ridge. Stone skews feature blocked skewputts. Gablehead stacks rise from the roof, with some breaking the pitch and topped with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are present.

Interior features include surviving mouldings, although the staircase in number 39 has been altered. Decoratively tiled doorsteps are also present.

The boundary walls are constructed of square-plan rough-faced granite gatepiers (shared with adjacent villas) with low coped walls between. Granite coped rubble walls divide the gardens to the north-west, while high brick coped rubble walls enclose the gardens to the south, sloping downwards.