Atholl Hotel Including Gatepiers And Boundary Walls, 54 King's Gate, Aberdeen

The Atholl Hotel, located at 54 King's Gate, Aberdeen, is a predominantly later 19th-century building with an addition constructed in 1895 by Brown and Watt, alongside subsequent additions and alterations. It is a two-storey and attic baronial house with a four-bay Gothic addition. The building is constructed of tooled granite ashlar with finely finished margins. A base course, sloping cills, and chamfered reveals to the 1880s addition are present, along with an eaves course and overhanging eaves featuring timber bargeboards.

The south elevation is asymmetrical. A segmental-arched doorway, featuring a keystone detail and a two-leaf glazed timber door with a fanlight, is prominent. Above the doorway is a bipartite window with a crenellated parapet, accessed by a balcony on corbelled brackets. A single window sits in a crowstepped gable of the attic floor, while a window to the ground floor of the left bay stands alongside an angle turret with two windows and an ogee roof topped by decorative ironwork. To the right, a three-light canted window on the ground floor rises to form a bow window at the first floor, and three gabled windows are incorporated into a conical roof with an iron finial. An 1880s addition adjoins the right side with a linking bay containing a bipartite ground-floor window and a cusped round-arched bipartite window on the first floor. A gabled block extends further to the right, featuring bipartite ground-floor windows, a blind tracery band course, round-arched cusped bipartite windows on the first floor with decorative shafts rising through the attic, and a quadripartite window in the gablehead of the attic floor, with additional shafts culminating in pinnacles.

The east elevation is partially obscured by later additions. It is asymmetrical and two-bay, with a modern flat-roofed porch and a canted bay window above. Stained glass windows are featured in the canted bay. An oriel window is situated on the first floor of the right bay, supported by triangular corbels, with stained glass upper sashes and a small window breaking the eaves of the attic. A harled 20th-century addition abuts the right side.

The north elevation's lower floors are obscured by 20th-century additions. The left side features a gabled 1880s bay with a first-floor window, while slate-hung bays infill the wallhead with a flanking stack, and each bay has a bipartite window.

The west elevation is asymmetrical and gabled, with a central ground and first-floor bipartite window, a flanking window to left, and a turret adjoining to the outer right.

The building primarily contains two-pane and four-pane timber sash and case windows, along with casement and timber windows with top hoppers in the 1880s addition. A grey slate roof has lead ridges, complemented by coped stone skews with blocked skewputts, coped gablehead and wallhead stacks with octagonal cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods.

The gatepiers, constructed of square-plan granite with bands of bull-faced and dressed granite, are topped with corniced ogee caps and spherical finials. Low granite walls, stepped with the slope of the road, flank the gatepiers, alongside granite coped Aberdeen bond walls to the north, east, and west.