62 Hamilton Place With Gate Piers And Boundary Walls, Aberdeen

This is a substantial, late 19th-century villa, built in 1885 to the designs of Pirie and Clyne. It is situated prominently in Hamilton Place, Aberdeen, and is accompanied by associated gate piers and boundary walls.

The villa is two storeys and an attic, showcasing an unusual combination of Egypto-Greek detailing. The principal elevation is constructed of coursed, roughly faced grey granite, while the remainder is built of granite rubble in an Aberdeen bond, with fine finishing to the margins. A dark grey, roughly faced granite base course, ground floor cill course, projecting cills to the first floor, a finely finished lintel band course, and a parapet define the principal elevation.

The south-east (principal) elevation is asymmetrical. A window is located to the right of the ground floor, with a matching window above. The reveals of the upper window are waisted towards the base, featuring a sunken fillet on the finely finished pilasters that sit below the lintel. A deep entablature, slightly advanced above, incorporates two navel paterae, and a stylised anthemion is centred at the wallhead. A canted window extends through the ground and first floors on the left, forming a balcony to the attic floor, with pilastered mullions and a sunken fillet at the capital. The attic floor is gabled and flanked by two deep scrolls with decorative skewputts, topped with a tripartite window; two navel paterae sit above, and a decorative stone finial crowns the apex.

The north-east elevation presents a near-symmetrical three-bay facade. A gabled bay dominates the centre, featuring a round-arched doorway on the ground floor with a scrolled horseshoe surround. Inside is a deep-set, pilastered, panelled timber door, flanked by glazed panels, a letterbox fanlight, and bullseye windows within moulded surrounds on either side. There is a window on the centre of the first floor, mirroring the detailing of the principal elevation. A tripartite window sits in the gablehead of the attic, finished with a decorative finial. A panelled timber door is located on the ground floor of the left return, alongside a three-light oriel window on the first floor, and a small, deep-set opening to the attic. An opening is present on the ground floor of the right return, with blank bays flanking to the left and right.

The north-west elevation is asymmetrical, with three bays and two ground floor windows. A lean-to addition extends to the right of the ground floor, and the first floor has an irregular pattern of fenestration. Two modern skylights are found in the attic floor.

The south-west elevation is gabled, with a stair window spanning the ground and first floors, and a window set within the gablehead above. An addition is present to the outer left.

The windows are timber sash and case, with two or four panes. Some replacement windows are evident on the first floor. The roof is covered in grey slate, with lead ridges. Stone skews are ornamented with scrolled skewputts, and coped gablehead and wallhead stacks feature circular and octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are present.

The interior has been subdivided into ground floor and first floor flats. Some original mouldings and doors remain on the ground floor, including a geometric frieze in the lounge. The first floor was not inspected in 2000.

The low boundary walls to the south and east are constructed of roughly faced, pink granite in an Aberdeen bond, incorporating grey granite snecking and coping. A single gatepier, shared with Nos 64-66 Hamilton Place (listed separately), is located to the southwest, featuring a grey granite shaft sweeping up from the plinth, a roughly faced pink granite neck surmounted by a scrolled cap, and a rubble dividing wall to the west. A coped rubble wall sweeps down to the east, finished with granite coping and a boarded timber door to the left.