Beechwood, 46 Rubislaw Den South, Aberdeen

Beechwood is a villa dating from 1896, designed by Brown and Watt. It is located at 46 Rubislaw Den South, Aberdeen.

The house is two storeys with a basement and attic, and has three bays at the front. It is constructed of rough-faced grey granite ashlar with finely finished long and short dressings on the south elevation, and Aberdeen bond granite rubble elsewhere. Features include a base course, dividing band course, long and short quoins, an eaves course, and overhanging eaves supported by timber modillions.

The south (principal) elevation is symmetrical. A Tuscan columned and pilastered porch is centrally located on the ground floor, flanked by advanced bays. The porch has a stone balustrade above, a two-leaf panelled timber door flanked by leaded panels and a fanlight, and a glazed two-leaf door with fanlight leading to a balcony on the first floor. Flanking bays to the left and right have four-light canted windows on the ground floor, with parapets forming balconies on the first floor. Bipartite windows are located on the first floor. A glazed, rectangular-plan cupola tops the attic floor and has a piended roof.

The east elevation is asymmetrical with two bays, featuring regular fenestration on the basement, ground, and first floors of the left bay and a four-light canted window on the ground floor and a tripartite window on the first floor of the right bay. A canted oriel dormer is positioned centrally on the attic floor. A single-storey and attic wing adjoins the outer right.

The north elevation is also asymmetrical, with a piend-roofed single-storey and attic wing advanced to the left. It has two small windows in the centre of the ground floor and a large stained-glass stair window on the first floor. The flanking bay to the right has regular fenestration.

The west elevation is asymmetrical, with a bipartite window centrally on the ground floor, a single window above, and regular fenestration to the left bay.

Timber sash and case windows are present on the south elevation; the remainder of the windows are PVCu. The roof is of piended green-grey slate with lead ridges. The building has corniced wallhead stacks with circular cans and cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior includes a tiled floor to the entrance porch, a pilastered panelled inner door with a leaded upper pane and fanlight, elaborate plasterwork to the hall ceiling, a timber staircase with turned balusters, some surviving mouldings.

The property is enclosed by square-plan, tooled granite ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps and low, stepped ashlar walls punctuated by oblong piers with corniced necks. Brick and granite coped rubble walls form the remainder of the boundary.