13 Queen's Road, Aberdeen

This is a late 19th-century villa, built in 1875 by Duncan MacMillan, with later 20th-century additions to the rear. The house is rectangular in plan, with two storeys and a basement.

The principal, northwest elevation is symmetrical and constructed of finely finished, tooled coursed grey granite with contrasting light grey granite dressings. The remainder of the exterior is built of Aberdeen bond granite rubble. The basement is clad in rough-faced granite, and the building features a base course, long and short quoins, projecting cills, an eaves course, and overhanging eaves. A central, pilastered doorpiece with a deep entablature dominates the northwest elevation, with a flight of splayed steps flanked by walls with lamp standards leading to the doorway. The doorway has a two-leaf panelled timber door with a letterbox fanlight, and a single window sits above it on the first floor. Canted three-light windows are incorporated into the basement and ground floors of the flanking bays, creating a balcony on the first floor. Bipartite windows are located above these on the first floor.

The southwest elevation has a central gablet and features two basement windows, a single window to the centre of the ground floor, and a window to the centre of the first floor. The southeast elevation has a glazed corridor link extending to a modern addition, obscuring the basement and ground floor. A segmental-arched stair window with fine stained glass is located above the corridor link, with further window openings flanking it. Three-light canted windows with piended roofs are present through the basement and ground floors of the bays to the outer left and right, with windows above on the first floor. The northeast elevation features a central gablet, three basement windows, a porch accessed by steps leading down to the basement, and a single window to the centre of the first floor.

The windows are predominantly two-pane timber sash and case. The roof is gabled and covered in grey slate with lead ridges, and features corniced gablehead stacks with octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are also present.

The interior retains significant original features, including skirting boards, mouldings, architraves, and cornicing. The doors have largely been replaced with modern equivalents. The entrance features a tiled floor, a panelled inner door with stained-glass panels and fanlight, and a panelled entrance hall with a pair of timber fluted Corinthian columns flanked by pilasters supporting a deep floreate cornice. Caryatid brackets are present at the archway leading to the staircase. The dog-leg staircase has turned balusters and panelling below the dado, with stained glass in the stair window. Arches lead to flanking rooms. One principal room on the east side of the ground floor has heavily textured wallpaper and a Jacobean panelled timber ceiling with gilded timber paterae, topped by a timber fire surround with panelled and glazed overmantle. Another principal room on the west side of the ground floor features rich plaster mouldings and a neo-classical timber fire surround.

Gatepiers of square-plan granite ashlar stand at the northwest corner of the property, shared with adjacent buildings. These are corniced with shallow pyramidal caps. Low coped rough-faced granite walls run between the gatepiers, and granite and brick coped rubble walls form the remainder of the boundary.