87 Fountainhall Road, Aberdeen

Pirie and Clyne, 1885. 2-storey and attic, 2-bay, rectangular-plan, semi-detached villa with Egytpo-Greek detailing. Rough-faced coursed grey granite, finely finished to margins. Projecting cills to ground floor; dividing band course; first floor cill and lintel course; eaves blocking course.

NE (FOUNTAINHALL ROAD) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; window to right of ground floor; 3-light canted window to flanking bay to right, forming balcony to 1st floor above, pilastered mullions. Slightly recessed planes flanking 1st floor windows; window to right of 1st floor, squat pilasters flanking below lintel, deep finely finished entablature breaking eaves above, navel-like paterae frieze surmounted by shallow scrolled pediment; tripartite window to left of 1st floor, pilastered mullions to central pane, squat pilasters flanking outer panes below lintel, deep finely finished entablature breaking eaves above, navel paterae frieze surmounted by pediment with stylised acroteria, anthemion motif to apex.

NW ELEVATION: obscured by adjoining building.

SW ELEVATION: broad glazed opening to ground floor, window centred to 1st floor above.

SE (HAMILTON PLACE) ELEVATION: symmetrical; gabled; doorway to centre of ground floor, corniced with consoles, surmounted by shallow scrolled details, deep set modern door; window with panelled apron to centre of 1st floor above; shallow tripartite window centred in gablehead, with deep set glazing; twin stacks flanking gablehead, stylised anthemion to apex.

Predominantly modern 2-pane timber-framed glazing. Grey slate roof with lead ridge. Coped stone skews with blocked skewputts. Coped granite wallhead and gablehead stacks with octagonal and circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 2000.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low granite ashlar wall to E; rubble walls to W with brick coping.