55 Argyll Place, Aberdeen

J B Pirie and A Clyne, 1884-1885. Single storey and attic principal elevation, 2 full storeys to rear, 41-bay terraced comprising predominantly 4-bay pairs of mirrored cottages except Nos 55 and 57. 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 bull-faced pilasters flanking tops of doorways to all but Nos 59-61, 63-65, 67-69, 71-73 and 75-77 where the central column is replaced by pairs of stylised anthemion motifs; canted dormers with timber twin dentil cornice, rectangular dormers above doorways with navel paterae to lintels, iron daffodil finials to dormers.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: near symmetrical. No 55: 2-bay asymmetrical; cottage with doorway to S Elevation (see below); canted window through ground floor forming dormer to attic floor in bay to left; bipartite window with knuckle detail on central astragal to flanking bay to right, bipartite rectangular dormer to attic floor above; curved wall to outer left converted to angle at lintel level. No 57: 3-bay cottage; 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. Nos 59-93: 9 4-bay pairs of mirrored 2-bay cottages; recessed doorways to 2 centre bays of ground floor with rectangular dormers above; canted windows through ground floor forming dormer to attic floor to flanking bays to outer left and right; elaborate mansard-roofed rectangular dormer adjoining rear of canted dormer to Nos 75-77.

N ELEVATION: gabled; symmetrical; pair of windows to centre of ground and 1st floors.

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

SE ELEVATION: gabled; single storey porch adjoining No 53 to ground floor, doorway to No 55 to right return.

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 E; copped rubble walls to rear.