Hamilton School, 55 Queen's Road, Aberdeen

A Marshall Mackenzie, 1898; later additions and alterations. 2-storey, basement and attic, 3-bay traditional villa. Tooled coursed pink granite ashlar, finely finished to margins at NW elevation; Aberdeen bond rubble to remainder. Rough-faced granite basement floor; ground floor cill course; raised margins; strip quoins; eaves course.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; architraved doorway to centre bay of ground floor, 4 stone steps flanked by iron railings lead to 2-leaf panelled timber door with oval glazed upper panels; tripartite windows to basement and ground floor of flanking bays to left and right; regular fenestration to 1st floor.

SW ELEVATION: part gabled; link to 57 Queen's Road at ground and basement floor; simple lean-to oriel below wallhead with window to centre.

SE ELEVATION: asymmetrical; full basement floor; addition advanced to centre bay of basement, surmounted by lean-to conservatory at ground floor, 2-storey lean-to addition adjoining at bay to left; regular openings to all floors of bay to right, window to 1st floor of centre bay; flue of wallhead stack advanced and breaking eaves between centre bay and bay to left; bipartite window to bay to left at 1st floor; variety of dormers to attic floor.

NE ELEVATION: part gabled; piend-roofed addition to centre of ground floor, window to 1st floor above.

Predominantly timber sash and case windows, plate glass lower sash and small-pane upper sash; some 4-pane windows to rear. Piended and gableted grey slate roof with lead ridges. Corniced gablehead and wallhead stacks with octagonal and circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: good interior; many of mouldings, cornices, architraves, wall and ceiling plasterwork survives. Decoratively glazed 2-pane inner door with fanlight; ionic pilastered hallway with rib-vaulted roof; panelling and neo-classical plasterwork ceiling to principal room at ground floor, fire surround; staircase and balusters survive.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: corniced square-plan rough-faced granite gatepiers to NW (shared with adjacent properties); low coped walls between, surmounted by railings (later addition); granite and brick coped rubble walls to remainder.