Building record MAB23960 - RUBISLAWDEN HOUSE, 27 RUBISLAW DEN NORTH, ABERDEEN

House built in 1881 for William Keith, a granite merchant, possibly designed by Duncan and John Ross MacMillan.

House built in 1881 for William Keith, a granite merchant, possibly designed by Duncan and John Ross MacMillan. It is depicted on the OS 2nd edition map and replaced a modest 18th century house depicted on the 1st edition OS map. The 2nd edition map also shows a lodge to the northeast of the house. It is two-storey with an attic, with both Baronial and Victorian Gothic details. There is a large balustraded raised terrace with circular crenellated viewing point overlooking Rubislaw Den. The motto of Marischal College is above an elaborately panelled door. Internally, there is a central two-storey hall, galleried at first floor level and an imperial marble stair with elaborate cast-iron balustrade. To the southwest of the house, and dating from the late 18th to early 19th century, are a curved terrace with pierced balustrade surmounted by recumbent lions, and a circular plan folly viewpoint with crenellated parapet. To the northeast and northwest of the house are two pairs of square-plan ashlar gatepiers flanked by shallow quadrant walls. There are high rubble walls to the north with simple square-plan piers with shallow pyramidal caps. For a time in the 20th century it was the Gordon House Hotel, later the Rubislaw Den Nursing Home, and more recently it has been known as Gordon House.

Period Notes
Listed 07/10/1986.

Jan 11 1982 , 17 images, 17 images (Ground Photograph). SAB36840.

Author unknown, n.d., EVENING EXPRESS, 10/09/1986 (Bibliographic reference). SAB446.

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