The Academy, Schoolhill, Aberdeen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1967. Education. 15 related planning applications.
The Academy, Schoolhill, Aberdeen
- WRENN ID
- tattered-granite-dust
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Education
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
John Alexander Ogg Allan, 1901. Bold 3-storey, multi-bay Renaissance style former academy building now part of Academy Shopping Centre with 4-storey 3-bay corner tower with leaded dome occupying prominent near-triangular site. Near-symmetrical treatment to principal N and W elevations terminating in advanced gable bays. Grey granite ashlar; rock-faced base course and ground floor; moulded string course between ground and 1st floors. Strong horizontal styling with broken cill courses and raised bays. Round-arched Venetian windows to top storey with Roman-Doric columned mullions.
NW corner tower: double-leaf timber doorway with open pediment above. Horizontal banding throughout corner elevation and projecting single bays flanking tower. 2nd storey openings pedimented; circular key-stoned windows above. Dentiled cornice to leaded dome with louvred lantern and finial.
Advanced terminating bays to N and W elevations with similar treatment at 1st and 2nd floors; gable with round-arched panel at apex.
Grey slate, broad gable end stacks, ashlar skews and skewputts, clay cans.
INTERIOR: Comprehensively altered to form Academy Shopping Centre complex.
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