Lodge, Grammar School, Skene Street, Aberdeen

LODGE

Probably James Matthews, circa 1860. Single storey and basement, 4-bay lodge to SE of Aberdeen Grammar School. Tooled coursed granite ashlar with finely finished margins. Base course; chamfered reveals; curved angles, corbelled to right angles below eaves; eaves course; crowstepped gables with inset blind narrow openings, spherical finials to apex.

NE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled porch advanced to penultimate bay to left, segmental-arched doorway with decorative roll moulding, keystone detail, timber door, small window to right return; window to bay to outer left, window to penultimate bay to right and bay to outer right.

NW ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 2-bay; gabled bay to left; advanced gabled bay to right, irregular fenestration to basement, single window off-centre to left of ground floor.

SW ELEVATION: gabled bay to right, remainder not seen 2000.

SE ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 2-bay; gabled bay advanced to right, canted window with stone piended roof to ground floor; window to recessed flanking bay to left.

Variety of small-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof with lead ridges. Beaked skewputts. Coped granite gablehead and ridge stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 2000.

BRIDGE OVER DEN BURN, GATES, GATEPIERS, BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS: looped iron railings to NE of lodge with decorative iron piers forming parapet of bridge over Den Burn. 4 square-plan granite gatepiers to principal entrance to SE of lodge, rough-faced, finely finished to margins, stop chamfered angles, corniced with pyramidal caps surmounted by spherical finials, 2-leaf decorative iron gate to centre, flanked to left and right by 2 pedestrian gates; low granite walls adjoining to left and right, swept out to street surmounted by decorative iron railings with fleur-de-lys caps, piers at angles; 2 piers to N of gates within playground. Granite wall to E, coped, surmounted by decorative iron railings with foliate caps, 2-leaf iron gate to centre, with decorative iron piers, stone steps up to playground level. Rubble walls to remainder, with pointed coping, simple iron gates with square-plan gatepiers.