47-49 Argyll Place Including Boundary Walls, Aberdeen

J B Pirie and A Clyne, 1884-1885. Single storey and attic principal elevation, 2 full storeys to rear, 14-bay terraced comprising 2 4-bay pairs of mirrored cottages and 2 3-bay cottages sub-divided to form 2 dwellings. Rough-faced grey and pink granite with finely finished margins. Dark grey granite base course; ground floor cill course; dressed lintel band course; pink granite deep eaves course, corniced with regularly spaced grey granite navel-like paterae. Pilastered panelled timber doors with glazed panels flanking and letterbox fanlights, some with original stained glass; squat rough-faced pilasters flanking tops of doorways; canted dormers with timber twin dentil cornice, rectangular dormers above doorways with navel paterae to lintels, iron daffodil finials to dormers.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; Nos 31, 37, 39-41: symmetrical; 2 4-bay pairs of mirrored 2-bay cottages; shallow recessed doorways to 2 centre bays of ground floor with rectangular dormers above, decorative iron finials (not daffodils); canted windows through ground floor forming dormer to attic floor to flanking bays to outer left and right; curved wall to outer left converted to angle at lintel level. Nos 43-45 and 47-49: 2 3-bay cottages sub-divided: doorway to centre of ground floor, with rectangular-dormer above; canted windows through ground floor forming dormers to attic floor in flanking bays to left and right; modern doorway adjoining Nos 43-45 to outer left, linking to Nos 39-41.

NW ELEVATION: gabled; piend-roofed addition adjoining to right of ground floor with window to left return, eaves blocking course; opening in wall above.

SW ELEVATION: gabled wings advanced to centre; additions and alterations; skylights to attic.

SE ELEVATION: gabled.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows, some replacement windows. Grey slate roofs with lead ridges. Stone skews. Coped stone gablehead and ridge stacks with predominantly octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIORS: not seen 1999.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped granite wall to NE; copped rubble walls to rear.