92 Hamilton Place With Gate Piers And Boundary Walls, Aberdeen

Pirie and Clyne, circa 1886. 2-storey and attic, 4-bay double villa with Egypto-Greek detailing. Rough-faced pink granite with predominantly grey granite dressings, finely finished to margins. Dark grey granite base course; ground floor cill course; pilastered panelled timber doors with letterbox fanlights; finely finished dividing band course; 1st floor cill course and band course at impost level; parapet between gables of principal elevation.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; 4-bay, comprising 2 2-bay mirrored, semi-detached villas. Doorways to centre bays of ground floor, flanked by squat rough-faced pilasters below lintels; deep-set doors flanked by glazed panels; single gableted windows breaking parapet to 1st floor above, deep entablatures flanked by squat pilasters, blind tablet to centre, stylised sunflower paterae centred in gablets. Pair of architraved windows with keystone details to flanking bays to left and right, oversized decorative pilaster between each, supporting 3-light oriel window to centre of 1st floor above, steeply pitched piended stone roof to each. Pedimented attic floors above, grey granite finials breaking pitch and scrolled ends; bull's-eye windows to centre, stylised sunflower paterae set in gableheads, stone finial to apex; modern skylight to attic to left.

NE ELEVATION: gabled; single storey addition to outer right at ground floor.

NW ELEVATION: broad canted window to ground floor of No 90, with small leaded panes; remainder not seen 2000.

SW ELEVATION: gabled; window to centre of 1st floor; addition to left at ground floor.

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

INTERIORS: good interiors. No 90: many mouldings and doors survive; particularly fine timber fireplaces to ground floor rooms; moulded cornice with sunflower paterae to principal room of ground floor; decoratively scrolled brackets over hall. No 92: many mouldings and doors survive; fine etched glazed panes to inner door and flanking window; timber stair with distinctively turned balusters; moulded cornice with sunflower paterae to principal room of ground floor; decoratively scrolled brackets over hall.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: low rough-faced pink granite Aberdeen bond walls to S with grey granite snecking and coping; gatepiers to left and right, shared with Nos 86-88 and Nos 94-96 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.