70 Hamilton Place With Gate Piers And Boundary Walls, Aberdeen

Pirie and Clyne, 1886; John Morgan, builder. 2-storey and attic, 4-bay double villa with Egypto-Greek detailing. Rough-faced pink granite with grey granite bow windows and parapet, finely finished to margins. Grey granite base course; ground floor cill course; pilastered panelled timber doors with letterbox fanlights; projecting cills to 1st floor; grey granite lintel band course to 1st floor; parapet between pediments of principal elevation.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; 4-bay, comprising 2 2-bay mirrored, semi-detached villas. Broad doorways to centre bays of ground floor, with decorative volute brackets forming shoulders, deep set panelled timber doors with glazed panels flanking, broad fanlights with turned mullions; single windows to 1st floor above, reveals waisted towards base, sunken fillet in finely finished granite below lintels; 3-light bowed windows through ground and 1st floors of bays to outer left and right, forming balcony to attic floor, pilastered mullions with sunken fillet at capital to 1st floor; pedimented attic floor flanked by 2 deep scrolls, window to each with decorative volutes below lintel, large decorative paterae centred in pediment, decorative stone finial to apex, wallhead stack flanking pediments to inside.

NE ELEVATION: gabled; window to centre of 1st floor; addition to outer right with doorway to No 68A at ground floor.

NW ELEVATION: lean-to additions to outer bays of ground floor, remainder not seen 2000; gabled outer bays at attic floor.

SW ELEVATION: gabled; window to centre of 1st floor; addition to outer left with doorway at ground floor.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows. Corniced gablehead and wallhead stacks with circular cans. Grey slate roof with lead ridge. Stone skews. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIORS: particularly fine interiors. Nos 68 and 68A: decorative timber and stone fireplaces, mouldings and doors survive; husked plaster frieze and ceiling to No 68A; fine stained glass to inner door of No 68, leading to stair with decoratively turned balusters, elaborate wallpaper below dado. No 70: tiled floor to oak panelled porch, with fine leaded glazing panels; mouldings and doors survive; neo-classical frieze to hall and principal rooms; distinctively turned balusters to stair.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: low rough-faced pink granite Aberdeen bond walls to S with grey granite snecking and coping; gatepiers to left and right, shared with Nos 64-66 and No 72 Hamilton Place (see separate listings), grey granite shaft swept up from plinth, rough-faced pink granite neck surmounted by scrolled cap, rubble dividing walls to E and W.