78 Hamilton Place With Gate Piers And Boundary Walls, Aberdeen

78 Hamilton Place is a double villa built around 1886 by Pirie and Clyne. It features two storeys and an attic, with four bays and Egypto-Greek detailing. The exterior is made of rough-faced grey granite, with finely finished margins, a dark grey granite base course, and a ground floor cill course. The entrance has pilastered panelled timber doors with letterbox fanlights, and there is a parapet between the pediments on the main elevation.

The principal elevation is symmetrical, consisting of two mirrored, semi-detached villas. The central bays on the ground floor have round-arched doorways with scrolled horseshoe surrounds and keystone details, leading to deep-set doors flanked by glazed panels. Above, there are single windows on the first floor with recessed lintels, supporting a swept-up parapet. The left and right bays feature pairs of windows with bowed architraves, oversized pilasters between each, and a central three-light oriel window on the first floor. Each villa has a steeply pitched piended stone roof, with a pedimented attic floor flanked by two deep scrolls and tripartite windows, topped with a decorative stone finial and flanked by wallhead stacks.

The northeast elevation has a gabled appearance with an addition on the right side at ground level. The northwest elevation was not visible in 2000. The southwest elevation is also gabled, with an addition on the left side at ground level.

The villa predominantly features 2-pane timber sash and case windows, with corniced gablehead and wallhead stacks that have circular cans. The roof is covered in grey slate with lead ridges, and the stone skews and cast-iron rainwater goods complete the exterior.

Inside, original mouldings and doors remain, and the staircase is notable for its distinctively turned balusters.

The gatepiers and boundary walls consist of low rough-faced pink granite walls with grey granite snecking and coping to the south. The gatepiers on either side are shared with Nos 74-76 and Nos 82-84 Hamilton Place, featuring grey granite shafts that sweep up from the plinth, with rough-faced pink granite necks topped by scrolled caps. There are also rubble dividing walls to the east and west.