87 Fountainhall Road, Aberdeen

87 Fountainhall Road is a semi-detached villa built in 1885 by Pirie and Clyne. This two-storey and attic building has a rectangular plan and features Egyptian-Greek detailing. It is constructed from rough-faced coursed grey granite, which is finely finished at the edges. Notable architectural elements include projecting cills on the ground floor, a dividing band course, and a cill and lintel course on the first floor, topped with an eaves blocking course.

The northeast elevation facing Fountainhall Road is asymmetrical. It has a window to the right on the ground floor and a three-light canted window in the flanking bay to the right, which forms a balcony above on the first floor, featuring pilastered mullions. The first-floor windows are slightly recessed, with a window to the right flanked by squat pilasters below the lintel and a deep, finely finished entablature that breaks the eaves above. This section also has a frieze with navel-like paterae, topped by a shallow scrolled pediment. To the left on the first floor, there is a tripartite window with pilastered mullions on the central pane and squat pilasters on the outer panes below the lintel, again with a deep entablature and a frieze with a pediment featuring stylised acroteria and an anthemion motif at the apex.

The northwest elevation is obscured by an adjoining building. The southwest elevation has a broad glazed opening on the ground floor, with a window centered above on the first floor. The southeast elevation, facing Hamilton Place, is symmetrical and gabled. It features a centrally located doorway on the ground floor, which is corniced with consoles and topped with shallow scrolled details, leading to a deep-set modern door. Above, there is a window with a panelled apron on the first floor, and a shallow tripartite window centered in the gablehead with deep-set glazing. Twin stacks flank the gablehead, and there is a stylised anthemion at the apex.

The villa has predominantly modern two-pane timber-framed glazing and a grey slate roof with a lead ridge. The skews are coped stone with blocked skewputts, and the wallhead and gablehead stacks are also coped in granite with octagonal and circular cans. The property features cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen in 2000. The boundary walls include a low granite ashlar wall to the east and rubble walls to the west with brick coping.