79 Hamilton Place, Aberdeen

79 Hamilton Place is a villa built in 1894 by Pirie and Clyne, with John Morgan acting as the builder. It is a two-storey building with a basement, an attic, and two bays, set within a rectangular plan. The principal elevation is constructed of coursed, rough-faced grey granite, with finely finished margins, while the remainder is of Aberdeen bond granite rubble. A dark grey granite base course, ground floor cill course, moulded first floor cill course, and eaves course are also present.

The asymmetrical northwest (principal) elevation features a doorway to the left of the ground floor. This doorway has decoratively stop-chamfered jambs, a panelled timber door flanked by glazed panels and a letterbox fanlight. A single window sits above the door on the first floor. A three-light canted window extends through the ground and first floors of a gabled bay to the right, forming a balcony at the attic floor. The gablehead of the attic floor incorporates a round-arched window with deeply chamfered reveals, and a tiny quatrefoil window is located at ground floor level to the outer left. An angle turret sweeps upwards on the first floor above, featuring a single window at its centre, and conical roof with a scrolled lead finial.

The southwest elevation is blank. The southeastern elevation is near-symmetrical and shows a bipartite window to the left of the ground floor, flanked to the right by two single windows. Three regularly placed windows are on the first floor, and a canted dormer sits to the left of the attic floor, alongside a modern skylight. The asymmetrical northeast elevation has an off-centre panelled timber door at ground floor level, with a pair of stair windows positioned between the ground and first floors, and again between the first and attic floors.

The majority of the windows are timber sash and case windows, with two panes per sash. The roof is covered in grey slate with a terracotta ridge. Stone skews feature blocked skewputts, and there are coped gablehead stacks with circular cans. Rainwater goods are made of cast iron.

The interior retains much of its original cornicing, skirting boards, dados, and panelled timber doors. Embossed wallpaper displaying sunflower paterae is present below the dado. Elongated colonnettes are visible at the angles of bay windows, and the sharply twisted staircase has distinctively turned balusters.

Gate piers and boundary walls of low, rough-faced pink Aberdeen bond granite, with contrasting grey snecking and coping, enclose the property. Piers located at the northwest and northeast corners have a grey granite shaft sweeping up from the plinth, a rough-faced pink granite neck, and a scrolled cap. Coped rubble walls define the southern, eastern, and western boundaries, with a boarded timber gate marking entrances to the east and southeast.