86 Hamilton Place With Gate Piers And Boundary Walls, Aberdeen

Pirie and Clyne, 1885. 2-storey and attic, 4-bay double villa with Egypto-Greek detailing. Rough-faced pink granite with grey granite bow windows, lintels and parapet, finely finished to margins. Grey granite base course; ground floor cill course; pilastered panelled timber doors with letterbox fanlights; moulded cills to 1st floor; continuous sunken fillet below lintels at 1st floor; grey granite lintel band course to 1st floor; parapet between pediments of principal elevation.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; 4-bay, comprising 2 2-bay mirrored, semi-detached villas. Round-arched doorways to centre bays of ground floor, scrolled horseshoe surrounds, deep-set doors, pair of modern doors at Nos 88 and 88A, glazed panels flanking; single windows to 1st floor above, reveals waisted towards base; 3-light bowed windows through ground and 1st floors of bays to outer left and right, forming balcony to attic floor, pilastered mullions with sunken fillet at capital to 1st floor, pink granite navel paterae along parapets; pedimented attic floor flanked by 2 deep scrolls, window to each with decorative volutes below lintel, large decorative paterae centred in pediments, decorative stone finial to apex; pink granite navel paterae to parapet between pediments.

NE ELEVATION: gabled; window to centre of ground floor; single storey addition to outer right with doorway to No 86A to left return.

NW ELEVATION: not seen 2000.

SW ELEVATION: gabled; single storey addition to outer left.

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

INTERIORS: No 86: 1st floor flat, decorative frieze to principal room, remainder not seen 2000. No 86A: ground floor flat; mouldings survive, colonnettes at angles of bow window. Nos 88 and 88A not seen 2000.

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 No 82-84 and Nos 90-92 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.