St Joseph's School, 5 Queen's Road, Aberdeen

St Joseph's School, located at 5 Queen's Road in Aberdeen, dates from around 1880. This two-storey building, with a basement and attic, features a rectangular plan and gothic detailing. Originally a detached villa, it has a modern link to 3 Queen's Road, designed by W J Devlin in 1923. The exterior is constructed of tooled coursed grey granite, finely finished with contrasting light grey margins, and Aberdeen bond granite rubble on the southwest and southeast elevations. Notable architectural elements include a base course, predominantly basket-arched windows, chamfered cills, a dividing band course, an eaves course, and gableted dormers.

The northwest (principal) elevation is asymmetrical, with regular fenestration on the basement floor. A deeply chamfered former doorway in the center of the ground floor has been converted into a window. To the right, there is a bipartite window, and the first floor above features regular fenestration. The dormers are bipartite with Tudor-arched windows and timber trefoils set in gablets. The left flanking bay is gabled and steps forward, featuring kneelers and a canted window on the ground floor, which has a piended slate roof truncated to form a balcony at the first floor, topped with gothic ironwork. Above, there is a bipartite window and a Tudor-arched window centered in the gablehead set in a relieving arch.

The southwest elevation is near-symmetrical and gabled, with windows in the center of the basement, ground, and first floors, the first-floor window featuring a pointed relieving arch. There is an off-centre window to the left in the attic.

The southeast elevation is asymmetrical and has three bays. It features a doorway in the center of the ground floor, with a stair window above and a skylight in the attic. The left flanking bay has a canted window through the basement and ground floor, a window on the first floor, and a dormer in the attic. The right gabled bay has a canted basement with an inset door, a canted window on the first floor, and additional windows in the first and attic floors. The link to 3 Queen's Road is adjacent to the right.

The northeast elevation is obscured by the link to 3 Queen's Road. The building predominantly has 2-pane and 4-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate featuring a fishscale band at the center and a lead ridge. Coped skews with gableted skewputts and coped granite gablehead stacks with octagonal cans are also present, along with cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside, the school has a simple interior with some original detailing still intact.