261 George Street, Aberdeen

Alexander Marshall Mackenzie, 1873-74. 2-storey, 4-bay bold Lombardic Gothic style former college building with prominent octagonal tower to far left and gabled frontage. Rough-faced granite with lightly stugged dressings. Stepped plinth base course; double string course between 1st and 2nd floors. Tall, arcaded round-arched openings to ground floor separated by pilasters; round-headed panels above with linked mouldings. Wider tower bay to far left with further round-arced opening. Windows at 1st floor with pointed heads rising to finialled gable, linked by parapet balustrade. Tower bay converts from square to octagonal over 2nd floor; faces alternate between buttresses and louvred, hoodmoulded openings; water spouts at angles in parapet; circular, galleried belfry stage with louvred openings; conical, slated roof with finial. Bold stack to rear with cavetto coped cornice. Rear harled, relatively plain with raised ashlar margins; central bay recessed; raised quoin details to flanking bays.

Two levels of multi-panefixed glazing to ground floor separated by infill section. Top-opening windows with glazing bars to 1st floor. Predominantly non-traditional glazing to rear. Grey slate roof; coped ashlar end stacks.