37 Forest Road Including Boundary Walls And Gatepiers, Aberdeen

Probably John Cameron, architect and John Morgan, builder, 1896; addition to rear, John Rust, 1909. 2-storey and attic, 4-bay double villa. Coursed rough-faced grey granite ashlar to principal elevation with finely finished margins; granite rubble to remainder. Base course; ground floor cill course; dividing band course; 1st floor cill course; eaves course.

SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; 4-bay, comprising 2 2-bay mirrored, semi-detached villas; doorways to 2 centre bays at ground floor, stop-chamfered reveals, corniced with consoles, pilastered panelled timber doors flanked by glazed panels, letterbox fanlights, bipartite windows to 1st floor above with stop-chamfered reveals, tripartite pedimented timber dormers to attic floor, with sunflower patera centred in pediments; 3-light canted windows through ground and 1st floors, forming balcony to attic floor, pedimented attic floor flanked by 2 deep scrolls, tripartite window centred to each, scrolled acroteria to pediment, sunflower patera to centre.

SE AND NW ELEVATIONS: gabled.

NE ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; additions by John Rust, 1909; single storey addition advanced to projecting centre bays at ground floor, windows to 1st floor above, tripartite rectangular dormer to right of attic floor, 2 skylights above, outer angles canted; shallow canted windows through ground and 1st floors of bays to outer left and right, tripartite piend-roofed dormers to attic floor above.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof with lead ridges. Coped stone skews with scrolled skewputts. Corniced gablehead and ridge stacks with square-plan cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIORS: not seen 2000.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped rough-faced granite wall to SW, single gatepier to left with scrolled cap (shared with 39 and 41 Forest Road, see separate listing); granite and brick coped rubble walls to remainder.