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Villa, still in residential use, built by Dr William Kelly of Aberdeen and dated 1909, and formerly known as 'Belize'. The north first-floor was altered in circa 2000 and some stonework was carried out in 2005 by Alastair Urquhart, stonemason. It is a tall, two-storey and attic, three-bay Neo-Tudor villa constructed from stugged, squared and coursed rubble, with Aberdeen bond to the sides and rear, some stugged and polished dressings, base and string courses, a first-floor cill course and corbelled, jettied mock half-timbered gableheads, stone transoms and mullions and chamfered arrises. The grey slate roof has terracotta ridge tiles and finials, coped Aberdeen bond stacks with cans and overhanging eaves with plain bargeboards. The south principal elevation has a centre bay at the ground-floor with a moulded arch dated '1909' on a shield at the apex, which leads to a recessed gothic-arched porch. Stone seats flank the porch, and a recessed doorway has a two-leaf, part-glazed, timber door. To the west of the door is a tiny pointed-arch light, and flanking corbel stones above give way to a horizontal four-light window at the first floor and a small window in the gablehead. To the east is a large transomed bipartite window at the ground-floor, a transomed five-light canted oriel window at the first floor and a tripartite in the gablehead. A full-height canted bay at the west has a transomed six-light canted window at the ground, a similar window above without transoms and a bipartite in the gablehead. Between the west and centre gables is an interlocking corbelled stack. The east Baird Street elevation has a chimney gablet, piended dormer windows and a single-storey and attic service wing to the north with a vertically-boarded timber door and three-pane fanlight. The two first-floor centre windows have coloured glass. The north elevation is asymmetrically-fenestrated elevation, with a variety of elements including a lower wing projecting at the east incorporating a piend roof with a small projecting gablet and adjacent stack and a four-light transomed window. There is a stepped stair window with coloured glass over a door in the re-entrant angle the east. and a piended dormer. The west elevation has a small, canted, off-centre window to the north, with a battered base, slated roof and a chimney gablet to the centre above. Inside there is decorative plasterwork ceilings and cornicing, timber fire surrounds with panelled, shelved and glazed overmantels and architraved panelled timber doors. A dog-leg staircase has decorative timber balusters and square newel posts, leading to the landing with a pointed arch opening. A winding staircase has cast-iron barleytwist balusters leading to the maid's bedroom, which has a fireplace incorporating a cast-iron canopy and grate. Some original wallpaper remains. To the south are low ashlar-coped boundary walls, with high coped rubble walls elsewhere.
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