Boundary Walls, St Machar Woodside Hall, 85 Western Road

This is a 1904 Masonic Hall, extended in 1915, built by George Jamieson. It is a tall, single-story building with a small basement and attic, arranged in a rectangular plan with a gabled front. The building has three bays and features arcaded openings, decorative window surrounds, and a relief carving of a "square and compass" in the gable. The exterior is of rock-faced granite with contrasting ashlar dressings and coursed squared rubble to the sides and rear, incorporating band courses. A keystoned, Doric columned doorpiece and pilastered windows add to the architectural detailing.

The principal, north elevation is symmetrical. It has steps leading to a recessed central door with a semicircular fanlight detailed with decorative glazing, and windows in the flanking bays, linked by a band course. An arcaded, tripartite window sits in the gablehead, with the eaves appearing as a cill course. Above is a circular plaque within a bolection-finialled gablehead, flanked by decorative stacks. The windows are timber sash and case with a four-pane glazing pattern. Grey slates cover the roof, with coped ashlar stacks topped with cans, ashlar-coped skews, and beak skewputts.

The interior retains fine detailing, including timber architraves, panelled doors, tall dadoes and picture rails. A vestibule features a black and white encaustic-tiled floor with a Masonic emblem (a square and compass enclosing the letter "G") and a part-glazed screen door with a deep fanlight, leading to a museum with boarded reveals and panelled timber shutters. An ante-room has fixed wall benches. The Main Hall is characterized by a coombed ceiling and moulded plasterwork cornices, and a keystoned arch supported by fluted, decoratively capitalled columns. Stencilled Masonic symbols, including the dates "BUILT 5908" and "EXTENDED 5919," are also present. The windows here are shuttered, but blocked on the exterior. A narrow, winding stone staircase with boarded timber walls leads to a small, vaulted, polygonal crypt with fluted angle columns and a mosaic tiled floor.

Low, saddleback-coped boundary walls with inset ironwork railings are present, featuring pyramidally-coped, square-section ashlar gatepiers and gates to the north. Higher, flat-coped rubble boundary walls complete the enclosure.