Richmondhill House, 18 Richmondhill Place, Aberdeen

Mid 19th century. 2-storey, basement and attic, 3-bay house with some later alterations. Tooled coursed grey granite, finely finished to chamfered margins at S elevation; tooled rubble to remainder. Dressed granite quoins; dividing band course; decorative eaves cornice; crenellated eaves blocking course to S, overhanging eaves with timber bargeboards and kingpost details to most gables.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; flat-roofed porch canopy advanced to centre of ground floor on Tuscan columns, moulded coping with 2 spherical finials at angles; 2-leaf panelled timber door reached by 4 stone steps with railings flanking, glazed panels to left and right, letterbox fanlight; bipartite window to 1st floor above; 4-light granite ashlar canted windows through half-sunken basement, ground and 1st floors of bays to left and right forming balcony to attic floor windows; tiny glazed gablet to centre of attic floor, flanked to left and right by 4-light canted gableted dormers, with red slate-hung dormerheads.

E ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 3-bay; window to centre of ground and 1st floors; gableted dormer to attic above; window to 1st floor of flanking bay to right; gabled bay to left with canted window to ground floor, 3-light oriel window set in gablehead of attic floor reached by modern iron fire escape.

N ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 3-bay; railings and steps down to basement floor; 2 windows to ground floor of centre bay, plate-glass tripartite window above; gabled bay to left with irregular fenestration, no bargeboards, stone finial to apex; blank gabled bay advanced to bay to right, no bargeboards, slate-hung platform to re-entrant angle to left at attic floor with decorative iron brattishing.

W ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 3-bay; segmental-arched doorway to ground floor of centre bay, 2-leaf panelled timber door with letterbox fanlight and blind tympanum, window to 1st floor above; gableted dormer to attic floor; tripartite window to each floor of flanking bay to left, gableted tripartite breaking eaves to attic floor; broad gabled bay to right, single storey canted block off-centre to right at ground floor, with windows to left and right returns, glazed opening flanking to left, with window above to 1st floor; 3-light canted oriel set in gablehead at attic floor.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof with pierced decorative terracotta ridge. Stone skews to gables without bargeboards. Coped granite gablehead stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: fine plasterwork ceilings to ground floor, decorative timber panelled doors and doorways, original staircase.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: square-plan granite gatepiers to W and SE, coped; coped tooled granite walls to S and W; brick and pink granite coped rubble walls to N and E.