Hotel Metro, 17-19 Market Street, Aberdeen is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1967. Former Mechanics' Institute. 3 related planning applications.
Hotel Metro, 17-19 Market Street, Aberdeen
- WRENN ID
- eastward-bastion-aspen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeen City
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Former Mechanics' Institute
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Archibald Simpson and William Ramage, 1845. 2-storey, 5-bay classical former Mechanics' Institute (see Notes) with distinctive central pedimented Doric-columned tripartite window. Grey granite ashlar with channelled rustication to central advanced round-arched entrance opening. String courses, black-painted frieze with the words 'METRO HOTEL & RESTAURANT', dentilled cornice, blocking course. Some round-arched arcading to ground at public bar to right, altered public bar front at left. Corniced tall window openings to upper storey with Doric-pilastered architraves.
Plate glass timber sash and case windows to upper storey, non-traditional glazing to ground. Gable stacks.
INTERIOR: not comprehensively seen (2006) but believed to be modernised.
Detailed Attributes
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