47-49 Argyll Place Including Boundary Walls, Aberdeen

47-49 Argyll Place comprises a group of cottages built in 1884-1885 by J B Pirie and A Clyne. This terraced development consists of 14 bays, arranged as two pairs of mirrored four-bay cottages and two three-bay cottages that have been subdivided into separate dwellings. The cottages are constructed of rough-faced grey and pink granite, with finely finished margins. A dark grey granite base course, a ground floor cill course, a dressed lintel band course, and a pink granite eaves course, corniced with regularly spaced grey granite decorative features resembling small spheres (paterae), define the exterior.

The principal, north-east, elevation presents an asymmetrical appearance, though numbers 31, 37, 39-41 have a symmetrical arrangement. The ground floor features pilastered timber doors with glazed panels and letterbox fanlights; some retain original stained glass. Squat pilasters flank the tops of the doorways. Dormers punctuate the roofline, with timber cornices featuring dentils, and rectangular dormers above the doorways are adorned with navel paterae to their lintels and iron finials shaped like daffodils. Canted windows extend through the ground floor, creating dormer-like features on the attic floor. A curved wall on the left-hand side has been altered to form an angled corner at lintel level. Some doorways have decorative iron finials rather than daffodils. A modern doorway connects numbers 43-45 to 47-49 on the left.

The north-west elevation features gables and a piend-roofed addition to the right of the ground floor, featuring a window to its return and an eaves blocking course. An opening is visible in the wall above. The south-west elevation has gabled wings projecting centrally, with additions, alterations, and skylights to the attic. The south-east elevation is gabled.

The cottages originally had predominantly two-pane timber sash and case windows, although some have been replaced. Grey slate roofs are covered with lead ridges. Stone skews are present, along with coped stone gablehead and ridge stacks topped with predominantly octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are affixed to the building.

The interiors were not inspected in 1999.

Low, coped granite walls mark the boundary to the north-east, while the rear has coped rubble walls.