13 Queen's Road, Aberdeen

Duncan MacMillan, 1875; 20th century additions to rear. 2-storey and basement, 3-bay, rectangular-plan villa. Tooled coursed grey granite with contrasting light grey granite dressings, finely finished to margins at NW elevation; Aberdeen bond granite rubble to remainder. Rough-faced granite basement; base course; long and short quoins and dressings; projecting cills; eaves course; overhanging eaves.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; pilastered doorpiece to centre of ground floor, with deep entablature; flight of splayed steps flanked by walls with lamp standards leading to doorway; 2-leaf panelled timber door with letterbox fanlight; single window to 1st floor above. Canted 3-light windows to basement and ground floors of flanking bays to left and right, forming balcony to 1st floor; bipartite windows to 1st floor above.

SW ELEVATION: central gablet; 2 windows to basement floor, window to centre of ground and 1st floors.

SE ELEVATION: centre bay obscured at basement and ground floor by glazed corridor link to modern addition; segmental-arched stair window to 1st floor above with fine stained glass, window openings flanking; 3-light canted windows with piended roofs through basement and ground floors of bays to outer left and right, windows to 1st floor above.

NE ELEVATION: central gablet; 3 windows to basement floor, and porch reached by flight of steps down to basement; single window to centre of 1st floor.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows. Gabled grey slate roof with lead ridges. Corniced gablehead stacks with octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: fine interior; much of skirting boards, mouldings, architraves and cornicing survives, doors predominantly replaced with modern equivalents. Tiled entrance floor; panelled inner door with fine stained-glass upper panels and fanlight; panelled entrance hall, with pair of timber fluted Corinthian columns flanked by pilasters supporting deep floreate cornice; caryatid brackets to arch leading to staircase; dog-leg stair with turned balusters and panelling below dado, panel mouldings to walls above; stained glass stair window; arches leading to flanking rooms. Heavily textured wallpaper to principal room to E of ground floor, panelled frieze above; Jacobean panelled timber ceiling with gilded timber paterae; Ionic pilastered timber fire surround with panelled and glazed overmantle. Rich plaster mouldings and cornice to principal room to W of ground floor; neo-classical timber fire surround.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: square-plan granite ashlar gatepiers to NW (shared with adjacent properties), corniced with shallow pyramidal caps; low coped rough-faced granite walls between; granite and brick coped rubble walls to remainder.