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. 18 related planning applications.
The Academy, Schoolhill, Aberdeen
- WRENN ID
- tattered-granite-dust
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Constituency
- Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Education
- OS grid reference
- NJ 939 062
- Coordinates
- 57.14748, -2.10103
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Academy, located on Schoolhill in Aberdeen, is a former academy building designed by John Alexander Ogg Allan in 1901. This bold, three-storey structure showcases a multi-bay Renaissance style and is now part of the Academy Shopping Centre. It features a prominent four-storey, three-bay corner tower topped with a leaded dome, situated on a near-triangular site.
The principal north and west elevations are nearly symmetrical, ending in advanced gable bays. The building is constructed from grey granite ashlar, with a rock-faced base course and ground floor, and a moulded string course between the ground and first floors. The design emphasizes strong horizontal lines, with broken cill courses and raised bays. The top storey features round-arched Venetian windows with Roman-Doric columned mullions.
The northwest corner tower includes a double-leaf timber doorway with an open pediment above. The corner elevation has horizontal banding and projecting single bays on either side of the tower. The second storey openings are pedimented, with circular key-stoned windows above. A dentiled cornice adorns the leaded dome, which has a louvred lantern and finial.
The advanced bays on the north and west elevations have a similar design treatment on the first and second floors, culminating in a gable with a round-arched panel at the apex. The building is topped with grey slate, featuring broad gable end stacks, ashlar skews and skewputts, and clay cans.
The interior has been comprehensively altered to create the Academy Shopping Centre complex.
Local climate
The Academy, Schoolhill, Aberdeen receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 18 applications
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