Norwood Hall Hotel, Garthdee Road, Aberdeen

Norwood Hall Hotel, located on Garthdee Road in Aberdeen, is a two-storey, five-bay former villa constructed in 1881 by John Russell Mackenzie. It occupies extensive grounds and incorporates an earlier house dating back to 1861. As of 2016, the building operates as a hotel. Two-storey extensions to the west and south, and one to the east, are excluded from the listing.

The building's exterior is white-painted harl with contrasting sandstone margins, featuring a base course, band courses, and a prominent cornice. Window openings are framed by moulded architraves, and the first floor showcases pedimented tripartite windows. The north-facing entrance is distinguished by an advanced, slightly off-centre, balustraded porch supported by a pair of Doric columns. This porch leads to a two-leaf entrance door with square glass panels. The easternmost bay features a balustraded tripartite bay window, while the westernmost bay has a ground floor tripartite window framed by Corinthian columns, with a matching balustrade above. A decorative cartouche bearing the intertwined initials 'J, C and O' sits within the pediment above this window.

The windows throughout are predominantly plate glass set within timber sash and case frames. The piended roof is covered in grey slates, with coped chimney stacks and a raised lightwell. There are coped ridge and wallhead chimneys.

The interior, observed in 2014, is exceptionally decorative and showcases a wealth of 19th-century features. The central hall boasts a timber imperial staircase characterized by Corinthian columns, decorative panelling underneath, Corinthian pilasters on the first floor, and a lantern light with coffered coving above. Intricate timberwork and plasterwork are found throughout, including panelled and decorative plasterwork ceilings, elaborate timber fire surrounds, some with overmantels, and panelling in numerous rooms. Figurative decoration is evident on some of the cornicing. The panelled timber doors each have intricately carved architraves and headers. Unusual, richly embossed, patterned wall coverings, resembling leather and possibly produced by Scott Morton & Co., adorn the hall and other public rooms.