22-26 School Hill, Aberdeen

James Mathews and Alexander Marshall Mackenzie, circa 1886. 3-storey and attic, 11-bay range of Classical commercial and residential buildings with Scots Baronial detailing on gently sloping site. Composition balanced by near-symmetrical arrangement of crowstepped gables breaking wall-head at central and outer bays. Stugged granite ashlar; finely tooled, chamfered openings. Shops to ground; stepped cill course at 2nd floor; moulded blocking course; shallow, castelated cornice. Corbelled-out, stone-roofed shallow canted oriels with tripartite windows at 2nd floor and attic; crowstepped gables with rose and thistle finials. Tripartite 'candle-snuffer' capped dormers to 8 remaining bays.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows throughout; grey slate; lead flashing to ridge and dormers caps; broad, corniced ashlar stacks; clay cans. Recessed cast iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: Dog-leg stair with cast-iron banister and timber handrail to communal inner stair. Retains some original fireplaces, presently boxed in at first floor commercial premises (2006).