88 Fountainhall Road, Aberdeen

Possibly William Smith, 1885; John Sangster, builder. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay, rectangular-plan villa with Scots Baronial details. Rough-faced granite, finely finished to margins. Base course; chamfered cills; eaves course; crowstepped gables; gableted timber dormers with round arched glazing.

NW (HAMILTON PLACE) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 3-bay; recessed doorpiece with Tudor-arched doorway to centre of ground floor, chamfered reveals, pilastered panelled timber door with fanlight above; single windows to flanking bays to left and right; regular fenestration to 1st floor; 2 dormers to bays to left of attic floor, gabled bay to right; angle turret corbelled out at 1st floor to outer left, single window to centre, conical slate roof with iron finial.

SW (FOUNTAINHALL ROAD) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 4-bay; oversized circular-plan tower to bay to left, 3 windows to ground and 1st floors, conical roof with louvred lucarne and iron weathervane to apex; blank gabled bay to centre of 3 bays to right; regular fenestration to flanking bays to left and right at ground and 1st floors; 2 dormers to attic.

SE ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled; doorway to ground floor with window above, single storey addition to right; stained glass stair window to recessed bay to outer right.

NE ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled; glazed timber door to centre of ground floor, window to flanking bay to right.

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

INTERIOR: panelled timber hall entered through panelled timber door with decorative stained glass upper pane, surrounded by stained glass panels; staircase with turned balusters and decorative newel post, stained glass window behind; original fireplaces survive, marble and carved timber; original mouldings survive, including decorative scrolled brackets supporting beam over stair; spiral staircase to SE.

GATES, GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: pink rough-faced granite boundary wall, coped with grey granite ashlar; iron gates to W and N; pier to left of gate at Hamilton Place, grey granite shaft swept up from plinth, rough-faced pink granite neck surmounted by scrolled cap, low granite wall to right.