98 Hamilton Place, Aberdeen

Pirie and Clyne, 1891. 2-storey and attic, 2-bay, square-plan villa with Egypto-Greek detailing. Coursed rough-faced grey granite finely finished to margins. Dark grey granite base course; ground floor cill course; moulded cills course to 1st floor; finely finished lintel and band course to 1st floor.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; doorway to left of ground floor, pilastered panelled timber door flanked by glazed panels and letterbox fanlight, 2 navel paterae above; broad window to 1st floor above doorway, decorative volutes flanking below lintel; gabled bay to right, 3-light canted window through ground and 1st floors forming balcony at attic floor; 2-light window to attic flanked by squat pilasters below lintel, raised cornice above with mirrored scroll ornament, scrolled finial to apex; circular-plan angle turret to outer left at 1st floor, window to centre, cornice above with mirrored scroll ornament, conical fishscale slate roof with simple finial.

NE ELEVATION: gabled.

NW ELEVATION: not seen 2000.

SW ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 2-bay; gabled bay to right, tall bipartite stair window between ground and 1st floors with decorative stained glass, 4 stained glass windows to attic floor; decorative sunflower patera set in gablehead, scrolled finial to apex. 3-light bowed window to ground floor of bay to left; window to 1st floor; gableted 2-light window breaking eaves to attic floor, tablet with navel paterae set in gablehead, simple stone finial to apex.

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

INTERIOR: most mouldings and doors survive; etched glass to inner door of porch; stair with distinctively turned timber balusters.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: low rough-faced pink granite Aberdeen bond walls to S with grey granite snecking and coping; gatepiers to left (on Fountainhall Road) and right, shared with Nos 94-96 Hamilton Place (see separate listing), grey granite shaft swept up from plinth, rough-faced pink granite neck surmounted by scrolled cap, rubble dividing walls to E and W; decorative iron archway between house and wall to W.