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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.
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Historic Environment Records (HER) 
Aberdeen City
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NJ90NW0134 - RUBISLAWDEN HOUSE, 27 RUBISLAW DEN NORTH, ABERDEEN