Trades Hall, 51 Belmont Street, Aberdeen

The Trades Hall, located at 51 Belmont Street in Aberdeen, was designed by Alexander Ellis and Robert Gordon Wilson and completed in 1896. This tall and substantial hall building is primarily intended to be viewed from Union Terrace and Roseburn Viaduct. The entrance on Belmont Street features a small single bay made of grey granite ashlar, with a pilastered and keystoned arch topped by a scrolled segmental panel dated 1896. This arch leads into the main hall, which has a six-bay design constructed from squared grey granite rubble with tooled dressings. The upper hall has six round-headed openings on the north and south elevations.

On the west elevation, there is a Venetian window at the upper level, with a shouldered wallhead stack above it, flanked by corbelled, domed, and finialed bartizans at the western corners. A staggered staircase runs down the length of the north elevation. The building has predominantly blacked-out windows and features a grey slate, piended roof over the main hall.

Inside, the hall was originally designed with two principal storeys but has since been converted into a cinema, with a horizontal division at the gallery level. Some of the original plasterwork has been retained.