98 Hamilton Place, Aberdeen

This is a substantial, late 19th century villa, built in 1891 to the designs of Pirie and Clyne. The house is two storeys and an attic, set on a square plan and exhibiting a combination of Egyptian and Greek architectural details. It is constructed of coursed, roughly faced grey granite with finely finished margins. A dark grey granite base course runs along the ground, with further courses marking the ground floor sill, the first floor sill, and a band course above the first-floor windows.

The south-facing (principal) elevation is asymmetrical, featuring a doorway positioned to the left of the ground floor. The door is panelled timber, with glazed panels and a letterbox fanlight above, flanked by two decorative naval paterae. A large window sits above the doorway on the first floor, with decorative volutes framing the lintel below. To the right is a gabled bay containing a three-light canted window that extends through the ground and first floors, creating a balcony at attic level. A two-light window is set in the attic, flanked by squat pilasters beneath the lintel, with a raised cornice above featuring mirrored scroll ornamentation, culminating in a scrolled finial. A circular-plan turret projects from the outer left at first-floor level, with a central window and a conical fishscale slate roof topped with a simple finial. The northeast elevation is gabled. The northwest elevation was not observed in 2000. The southwest elevation, also asymmetrical and two bays wide, also features a gabled bay to the right. This bay contains a tall, bipartite stair window extending between the ground and first floors, incorporating decorative stained glass. Four stained glass windows are located at the attic level. A decorative sunflower patera is embedded in the gablehead, with a scrolled finial at the apex. A three-light bowed window is positioned at ground floor level in the bay to the left, above which is a window to the first floor. A gabled two-light window breaks through the eaves at attic level, featuring a tablet with naval paterae in the gablehead and a simple stone finial at the apex.

The majority of windows are timber sash and case, with two panes. The roof is covered in grey slate with lead ridges. Stone skews are present, along with coped gablehead stacks topped with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are also present.

Internally, many original mouldings and doors remain. The porch features etched glass on its inner door, and the staircase has distinctively turned timber balusters.

Low, roughly faced pink granite walls in an Aberdeen bond pattern surround the site to the south, with grey granite snecking and coping. Gatepiers are positioned to the left (on Fountainhall Road) and right, shared with numbers 94-96 Hamilton Place (which have a separate listing). The gatepiers are constructed of grey granite with a swept plinth, a roughly faced pink granite neck, and scrolled caps. Rubble dividing walls extend to the east and west. A decorative iron archway connects the house to the boundary wall on the west side.