34 Albyn Place, Aberdeen

Circa 1840. 2-storey, basement and attic, 3-bay villa with classical detailing. Tooled coursed grey granite ashlar, finely finished to margins and dressings. Base course; panelled strip quoins; eaves course, cornice and blocking course.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; doorway to ground floor of centre bay, ashlar doorpiece, pilasters supporting segmental-arched pediment, 2-leaf panelled timber door with letterbox fanlight, windows to basement floor enclosed by railings; tripartite windows to flanking bays to left and right at ground floor, pedimented with consoles; 3 regularly placed architraved windows to 1st floor; 2 piend-roofed rectangular dormers to attic floor.

W ELEVATION: gabled; bipartite windows to centre of ground floor, 2-light windows to 1st floor above flanked by single window to left; window sent in gablehead of attic floor flanked to left by window and to right by blind opening.

S ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; modern addition to basement and ground floor, window to left of ground floor; round-arched stair window to centre bay between ground and 1st floors, canted 3-light oriel windows flanking to left and right; slate-hung rectangular dormer comprising single central window flanked to left and right by bipartite windows at attic floor.

E ELEVATION: gabled; window to centre of ground and 1st floors flanked to right by single window; 3 blind windows set in gablehead at attic floor.

Variety of timber sash and case windows Grey slate roof with metal ridge. Coped stone skews with blocked skewputts. Corniced ashlar gablehead stacks with octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: some mouldings survive; stair with decorative iron balusters.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: square-plan gatepiers to N with pyramidal caps. Low granite kerb wall to N; granite and brick coped rubble walls to remainder.