64 Hamilton Place, Aberdeen

66 Hamilton Place, Aberdeen, is a substantial double villa built in 1885 by Pirie and Clyne, with John Morgan acting as the builder. It is a two-storey and attic structure, featuring Egypto-Greek architectural detailing. The exterior is constructed of rough-faced pink granite with grey granite dressings, and the attic floor is finely finished to the margins. A base course and ground floor cill course are visible, along with pilastered, panelled timber doors, each with a letterbox fanlight above. Projecting cills adorn the first-floor windows, and a finely finished lintel band course runs along the first floor. A parapet sits between the gables of the principal elevation.

The south-facing (principal) elevation is symmetrical and comprises two mirrored, semi-detached villas over four bays. Broad, round-arched doorways are centrally positioned on the ground floor, framed by scrolled horseshoe surrounds. Each doorway has deep-set double doors, and single windows are positioned above on the first floor. The reveals of these windows are waisted towards the base, with scrolled detailing below the lintel. A pink, rough-faced granite neck rises to a deep entablature, which is slightly advanced and features two navel paterae. A stylised anthemion is centred at the wallhead. Canted windows extend through the ground and first floors of the bays on the outer left and right, creating a balcony to the attic floor. These windows have pilastered mullions with a sunken fillet at the capital on the first floor. The gabled attic floor is flanked by two deep scrolls, with bipartite windows providing light. These windows have scrolled reveals, and two navel paterae sit above, culminating in a large decorative stone finial at the apex. A modern skylight is located centrally to the right of the attic floor.

The north-east facing elevation is gabled, with a window centrally positioned on the first floor, and an addition extends to the outer right. The north-west facing elevation features lean-to additions to the outer bays on the ground floor, while the remainder is not visible from 2000. Gabled outer bays are present at the attic floor. The south-west facing elevation is also gabled, with a window centrally positioned on the first floor, and an addition extends to the outer left.

The windows are primarily timber sash and case, with two panes, and include some replacement windows with top hoppers. The roof is covered with grey slate and lead ridges, and incorporates stone skews. Corniced granite gablehead and ridge stacks are present, topped with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are fitted.

The interiors have been converted into flats. Notable features include fine etched glass in the inner porch door of No. 66A, an original fireplace in the principal room, decorative moulded ceilings, and a decorative frieze in No. 66 on the first floor. The majority of original doors, cornices, and skirting boards remain, alongside some elongated colonnettes at the angles of the bay windows.

Low, rough-faced pink granite Aberdeen bond boundary walls, with grey granite snecking and coping, run along the south side. Gatepiers, shared with Nos. 62, 68, and 70 Hamilton Place (listed separately), are constructed of grey granite with a swept shaft rising from the plinth, a rough-faced pink granite neck, and a scrolled cap. Rubble dividing walls extend to the east and west.