66 Hamilton Place, Aberdeen

Pirie and Clyne, 1885; John Morgan, builder. 2-storey and attic, 4-bay double villa with Egypto-Greek detailing. Rough-faced pink granite with grey granite dressings and attic floor, finely finished to margins. Base course; ground floor cill course; pilastered panelled timber doors with letterbox fanlights; projecting cills to 1st floor; finely finished lintel band course to 1st floor; parapet between gables of principal elevation.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; 4-bay, comprising 2 2-bay mirrored, semi-detached villas. Broad round-arched doorways to centre bays of ground floor, with scrolled horseshoe surrounds, deep-set double doors to each, single windows to 1st floor above, reveals waisted towards base, scrolled below lintel with pink rough-faced neck, deep entablature slightly advanced above with 2 navel paterae, stylised anthemion centred at wallhead. Canted windows though 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; gableted attic floor flanked by 2 deep scrolls, bipartite windows to each, with scrolled reveals, 2 navel paterae above, large decorative paterae set in gablehead decorative stone finial to apex; modern skylight to centre right of attic floor.

NE ELEVATION: gabled; window to centre of 1st floor; addition to outer right.

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.

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

INTERIORS: converted to flats; fine etched glass to inner porch door of No 66A, and original fireplace to principal room and decorative moulded ceiling; decorative frieze to No 66 (1st floor); majority of doors, cornices and skirting boards survive, some elongated colonnettes at angles of bay windows.

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 No 62 and Nos 68-70 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.