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

This property is a villa built in 1890 by Pirie and Clyne, featuring two stories and three bays. It is constructed from rough-faced grey granite, with finely finished margins, and includes a dark grey granite base course, a ground floor cill course, a first floor moulded cill course, and a continuous sunken fillet below the lintels on the first floor. The eaves are finished with a parapet.

The principal elevation is asymmetrical, with a central doorway on the ground floor that has a two-leaf panelled timber door and a leaded fanlight above. To the left of the ground floor is a three-light bowed window that forms a balcony on the first floor, while there is a pair of windows to the right of the ground floor. The first floor has a single window in the center and a pair of windows in the bays to the left and right.

The northeast elevation features a part-gabled design with a single-storey addition on the ground floor that includes a window on the left return. There is a large stained glass stair window in the center and an additional structure on the outer right. The northwest elevation was not visible in 2000, and the southwest elevation is part-gabled with a single window on the ground floor.

The villa has two-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof with a lead ridge, stone skews, and corniced gablehead and wallhead stacks with circular cans. It also features cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside, the villa boasts a fine interior with an oak panelled porch and a timber inner door that has a geometric glazing pattern. The dog-leg stair is distinguished by turned timber balusters, and the interior retains mouldings and doors, simple fireplaces, panelled walls, a decorative cornice, and a cusped plasterwork ceiling in the principal room at the rear.

The gatepiers, boundary walls, and provost's lamps consist of low rough-faced pink granite walls in Aberdeen bond to the south, with grey granite snecking and coping. The gatepiers on the left and right are shared with Nos 68-70 and Nos 74-76 Hamilton Place, featuring a grey granite shaft that sweeps up from the plinth, a rough-faced pink granite neck, and a scrolled cap on top. There are rubble dividing walls to the east and west. Two decorative iron provost's lamps with colored glass are positioned on either side of the doorway to the house.