62 Hamilton Place With Gate Piers And Boundary Walls, Aberdeen

Pirie and Clyne, 1885. 2-storey and attic, 2-bay villa with Egypto-Greek detailing. Coursed grey rough-faced granite to principal elevation, Aberdeen bond granite rubble to remainder, finely finished to margins. Dark grey rough-faced granite base course; ground floor cill course; projecting cills to 1st floor; finely finished lintel band course; parapet to principal elevation.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; window to right of ground floor; window to 1st floor above, reveals waisted towards base, sunken fillet to finely finished pilasters below lintel, deep entablature slightly advanced above with 2 navel paterae, stylised anthemion centred at wallhead; canted window through ground and 1st floors of bay to left forming balcony to attic floor, pilastered mullions with sunken fillet at capital; gableted attic floor flanked by 2 deep scrolls with decorative skewputts, tripartite window with squat pilasters flanking below lintel, 2 navel paterae above, decorative stone finial to apex.

NE ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; 3-bay; gabled bay to centre, round-arched doorway with scrolled horseshoe surround to centre of ground floor, deep-set pilastered panelled timber door, flanked by glazed panels, letterbox fanlight, bull's-eye windows with moulded surrounds flanking to left and right; window to centre of 1st floor above, reveals waisted towards base, sunken fillet to finely finished pilasters below lintel, corniced entablature; tripartite window set in gablehead of attic, decorative finial to apex; panelled timber door to ground floor of left return, 3-light oriel window to 1st floor, small deep-set opening to attic floor; opening to ground floor of right return; blank bays flanking to left and right.

NW ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 3-bay; 2 windows to ground floor, lean-to addition extends to right of ground floor; irregular fenestration to 1st floor; 2 modern skylights to attic floor.

SW ELEVATION: gabled; stair window between ground and 1st floors, window set in gablehead above; addition to outer left.

2-pane and 4-pane timber sash and case windows; some replacement windows to 1st floor. Grey slate roof with lead ridge. Stone skews with scrolled skewputts. Coped gablehead and wallhead stacks, circular and octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: subdivided into ground floor and 1st floor flats. Some mouldings and doors survive to ground floor, geometric frieze to lounge. First floor not seen 2000.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: low rough-faced pink granite Aberdeen bond walls to S and E, with grey granite snecking and coping; single gatepier shared with Nos 64-66 Hamilton Place (see separate listing) to SW, grey granite shaft swept up from plinth, rough-faced pink granite neck surmounted by scrolled cap, rubble dividing wall to W; coped rubble wall swept down to E, with granite coping, boarded timber door to left.