28 Forest Road, Aberdeen

This is a two-story and attic villa, constructed in 1895 by the architects Brown and Watt. It is located on Forest Road, Aberdeen and has an L-shaped plan with a service wing to the rear. The villa is largely built of tooled coursed grey granite with finely finished margins to the northeast elevation, while the remainder is of coursed granite rubble. A base course is present, along with chamfered reveals and eaves that sweep down on the northeast elevation.

The northeast (principal) elevation is asymmetrical. A gabled bay is advanced to the right, featuring a three-light canted window on the ground floor, a bipartite window above, and a squat, segmental-arched triple window in the gablehead, complete with a corniced cill and stone finial. To the left, a three-stage, circular-plan entrance tower rises above the eaves, incorporating a gabled porch at the first stage with a segmental-arched doorway, moulded reveals, a panelled timber door with diamond-leaded upper panels, a leaded tripartite fanlight, and a window at the second stage. A band of square windows with ogee lintels sits below the eaves, while the conical tower is covered in fishscale slates and topped with a lead finial. A window is centrally placed in the recessed bay to the left, flanked to the right by a small window. The outer left angle is deeply chamfered, containing a window and an oversized corbel above to form a right angle. A gabled window breaks the eaves of the bay to the left, featuring a tiny ‘vessica’ detail in the gablehead.

The northwest elevation is irregular, featuring openings and a two-story wing to the outer right, with a doorway on the left return. The southwest elevation is also asymmetrical, with a two-bay arrangement. A gabled bay is located to the left, with a replacement stained-glass stair window on the right side of the first floor. Adjoining to the left is a two-story service wing with irregular fenestration, and a flat-roofed addition at the right, stepped back at the first floor with a band of windows across the floor and a broad rectangular dormer to the attic floor. The southeast elevation is gabled, featuring a bipartite window in the gablehead.

The windows are predominantly two-pane timber sash and case, with some having small-pane upper sashes. The roof is covered with green slate, with lead ridges. Stone skews incorporate gableted skewputts. Stepped coped gablehead and wallhead stacks feature circular cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods are in place.

Inside, original skirting boards, door architraves, cornicing, and a timber staircase with barley sugar turned balusters remain. The property includes square-plan obelisk gatepiers to the northeast, connected by a low granite wall, with granite and brick coped rubble walls forming the remainder of the boundary.