Rosemount School, Esslemont Avenue, Aberdeen

Rosemount School, located on Esslemont Avenue in Aberdeen, was designed by James Souttar and built between 1883 and 1884, with an east wing addition by J A O Allan in 1901. This is a two-storey and basement, three-bay, L-plan Italianate school featuring classical detailing. The exterior is constructed from tooled coursed granite, which is finely finished at the margins, with a rough-faced base course and basement. The building has pilastered windows with panelled aprons, a dividing band course, an eaves course, and overhanging eaves.

The northeast elevation is symmetrical, featuring a doorway at the slightly recessed center bay of the ground floor, which is accessed by a flight of stone steps. This doorway has a pilastered design with stylised capitals on the columns, a two-leaf panelled timber door with a letterbox fanlight, and is flanked by glazed panels on either side, with a decorative iron lamp centered above. To the left, there is a tripartite doorway flanked by a bipartite window at the basement level. The ground and first floors of the flanking bays on either side have tripartite windows.

The northwest elevation is also symmetrical, with a recessed center bay and seven-light pilastered windows on the ground and first floors, along with tripartite windows in the flanking bays.

The southwest elevation is obscured by modern additions, while the southeast elevation is asymmetrical and consists of five bays. Two bays on the right are recessed, with a panelled timber door to the left of the basement floor, flanked by three windows. There is a two-leaf panelled timber door to the right of the basement, also flanked by two windows. Above, a six-light pilastered window is flanked by tripartite windows on the ground and first floors. To the left, there are three advanced bays with bipartite windows in the center bay at all floors, flanked by tripartite windows on the right and modern windows on the left, with three regularly placed windows on each floor of the right return. A 20th-century addition is located to the outer left.

The school features a variety of timber sash and case windows, a piended grey slate roof with lead ridges, and a ventilator at the apex of the block on the southeast side. Coped granite stacks break the pitch of the roof and have octagonal cans, along with cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen in 2000. The boundary wall consists of coped granite walls topped with modern railings added by J A O Allan in 1901.