21A St Nicholas Street, Aberdeen

21A St Nicholas Street in Aberdeen is an early 20th-century, four-storey commercial building located on a prominent corner site. The building features a unified shopfront on the ground floor and is notable for its 1930s Art Deco style, particularly evident in the northeast elevation, which showcases a five-bay design made of pale granite ashlar.

The St Nicholas Street elevation is characterized by a former Burton building that has five tall, round-arched openings starting from the first floor. These arches are adorned with distinctive scalloped voussoirs at the arch heads, and ribbed metal aprons separate the floors within the arches. A decorative linen-fold eaves band runs along the top, featuring a central panel inscribed with 'Montague Burton 'Tailor Of Taste' and alternating chevron-detailed shields.

To the left, there is a three-bay building made of stugged ashlar, which includes cill courses and a moulded string course between the second and third floors. The central bay is flanked by consoled pilasters on the second and third floors, which rise to form stacks with a crenellated panel inscribed 'Commercial Buildings'. Stone mullioned bipartite openings can be found throughout, with additional pilasters on the outer bays.

On the north elevation, there is a narrow, blind window in the first bay, alongside a three-bay pointed gable elevation with an attic light to the left. This side also features three round-arch openings with simple detailing and a multi-panel fixed-pane glazing pattern. To the right, there is a flat-roofed three-bay elevation with a canted corner that returns to Correction Wynd.

The building has grey slate roofing, broad gable end stacks, ashlar skews and skewputts, and clay cans. The interior was comprehensively modernized and altered to form a single shop, as observed in 2006.