84 Hamilton Place With Gate Piers And Boundary Walls, Aberdeen

Pirie and Clyne, circa 1886. 2-storey and attic, 4-bay double villa with Egypto-Greek detailing. Rough-faced grey granite with finely finished to margins. Dark grey granite base course; ground floor cill course; pilastered panelled timber doors with letterbox fanlights; 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 with keystone details surmounted by stylised anthemion motifs, pair of modern doors to right (Nos 82 and 82A), single door to No 84, flanked by glazed panels; single windows to 1st floor above, deep entablatures breaking parapet above, on squat pilasters, pair of navel paterae to centre of each, stylised anthemion motifs to centre. Pair of windows with bowed architraves to flanking bays to left and right, oversized decorative pilaster between each, supporting 3-light oriel window to centre of 1st floor above with stylised Ionic capitals to pilastered mullions, steeply pitched piended stone roof to each. Pedimented attic floor flanked by 2 deep scrolls, tripartite window to each, stone roundel to centre pane enclosing shell motif, acroteria to pediment above, anthemion to apex; wallhead stack flanking pediments to inside.

NE ELEVATION: gabled.

NW ELEVATION: not seen 2000.

SW ELEVATION: gabled; addition to left of ground floor.

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

INTERIORS: No 82: ground floor; mouldings survive, Voysey influenced fireplace, possibly not original; No 82A not seen 2000. No 84: bull's-eye window flanking inner doorway, moulded surround with sunflower paterae; distinctively turned balusters to staircase through ground, 1st and attic floors; some mouldings and doors survive, elongated colonnettes at angles of canted windows.

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 Nos 78-80 and Nos 86-88 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.