Odeon Cinema, Justice Mill Lane, Aberdeen

The Odeon Cinema, located on Justice Mill Lane in Aberdeen, was designed by Thomas Scott Sutherland and built between 1931 and 1932. This Art Deco cinema features a striking front with a gabled auditorium block at the rear. The exterior is constructed of grey granite with polished dressings, a polished black granite base course, and brick bands above, as well as fluted brick panels. The sides and rear are rendered.

The principal elevation has a stepped design with interlocking blocks, consisting of nine bays and additional chamfered corners. The tall recessed centerpiece includes a three-box canopy that extends beyond and embraces the flanking bays. At ground level, there are three pairs of two-leaf doors with a chevron glazing pattern, set in panelled timber surrounds, and a stylised timber keystone above the central doors. The entrance recess features red tiled jambs, and above are three narrow windows in recessed vertical panels. The wallhead is quasi-crenellated with fluted bands. The slightly lower advanced flanking bays have tall round-arched panels containing narrow windows at ground level and round-headed lights above, all set in brick-dressed outer bays with two windows in slightly recessed panels on each side. Each chamfered bay has a window in a round-arched panel, topped by a taller block-pedimented wallhead.

The side and rear walls are largely blank, broken up by raised pilaster strips at intervals. The rear gable end has a piend-roofed projection, flanked by lean-to blocks in the re-entrant angles. The windows are fitted with plate glass glazing in timber sash and case frames.

Internally, the cinema has been converted for use as a health club since 2001.