60-62 Schoolhill, Aberdeen

54-58 Schoolhill in Aberdeen is a substantial three-storey and attic L-plan block of commercial and residential buildings designed by Alexander Marshall Mackenzie for Matthew and Mackenzie Architects, built between 1885 and 1886. The buildings are in the Renaissance style and feature grey granite ashlar with red Correnie granite dressings, creating a well-integrated appearance.

The section at Nos 46-50 includes a seven-bay corner building with shops on the ground floor. It has a splayed southeast corner adorned with fluted pilasters on the first floor, and plinthed urns above the cornice flank a prominent angled pilastered dormer with an entablature, finials, a fish-scale slated roof, and a cast-iron crown. The Schoolhill elevation features five segmental-arch dormers separated by a low coped parapet, while the Harriet Street elevation has six bays with four dormers.

Nos 54-70 is an eight-bay corner building on the south elevation, characterized by channelled rustication on the ground floor and a splayed southwest corner with stone mullioned tripartite openings on the first and second floors. Giant pilasters with Ionic style capitals terminate the second and third-storey bays on the south and west elevations. The west elevation has a triangular pedimented gable end with a keystoned oculus and raised blocks above the cornice that create a castellated effect. The mansarded roof features eight setback pedimented tripartite dormers, and the west elevation also has eight bays with a similar treatment.

The buildings have plate-glass timber sash and case windows throughout, grey slate roofs, red granite ashlar ridge and end stacks, and clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are also present.