Boundary Walls And Provost's Lamp, 72 Hamilton Place With Gate Piers, Aberdeen

Pirie and Clyne, 1890. 2-storey 3-bay villa. Rough-faced grey granite, finely finished to margins. Dark grey granite base course; ground floor cill course; 1st floor moulded cill course; continuous sunken fillet below lintels at 1st floor; eaves parapet.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; doorway to centre of ground floor, 2-leaf panelled timber door, leaded fanlight; 3-light bowed window to left of ground floor, forming balcony at 1st floor, pair of window to right of ground floor; single window to centre of 1st floor, pair of windows to bays to left and right.

NE ELEVATION: part-gabled; single storey addition to ground floor with window to left return; large stained glass stair window to centre; addition to outer right.

NW ELEVATION: not seen 2000.

SW ELEVATION: part-gabled; single window to ground floor.

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

INTERIOR: fine interior. Oak panelled porch, timber inner door with geometric glazing pattern; dog-leg stair with distinctively turned timber balusters; mouldings and doors survive; simple fireplaces; panelled walls, decorative cornice and cusped plasterwork ceiling to principal room to rear.

GATEPIERS, BOUNDARY WALLS AND PROVOST'S LAMPS: low rough-faced pink granite Aberdeen bond walls to S with grey granite snecking and coping; gatepiers to left and right, shared with Nos 68-70 and Nos 74-76 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. 2 decorative iron provost's lamps flank doorway to house, decoratively coloured glass.