Huntly Family Centre, 4 Deveron Road, Huntly, Aberdeenshire is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 May 2016. Drill hall.

Huntly Family Centre, 4 Deveron Road, Huntly, Aberdeenshire

WRENN ID
rough-joist-tide
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 May 2016
Type
Drill hall
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

This former drill hall was designed by George Sutherland in 1901-2, in a Free Renaissance style. The principal (northeast) elevation comprises an advanced 2-storey gable with a 3-stage, square tower to the left, a single bay to the right of the gable and a single storey porch to the far right. It is constructed in tooled, squared and coursed grey Avochie granite with long and short, pink Auchindoir ashlar, dressings. There is a battered base course and a string course between the ground and first floor, and the rear elevation is rendered. The tower and the porch elevation have crenelated parapets and the tower has a dentilled cornice.

The advanced gable has bipartite ground floor windows and round-arched, keystoned first floor windows. In the gable head is a plaque with the inscription 'A Company 4th VBGH' which is set under a decorative hoodmould with a thistle motif and the gable is topped with an ogee shaped stone. The first floor window of the single bay to the right of the gable extends above the eaves and has a gabletted dormer with a small carved shield in the dormerhead. The porch section has a single wide segmentally-arched opening while the southeast wall of the drill hall itself has shallow arched window openings.

The windows have been replaced and are predominantly multipane sashes over a single pane. The rainwater goods are predominantly metal with decorative hoppers. The roofs are pitched with grey slates, except the roof of the right section, including the porch, which has a corrugated sheeting roof. There are straight skews and coped wallhead chimney stacks with cylindrical cans.

The interior, seen in 2016, has been comprehensively refurbished and subdivided into offices and training rooms. The iron roof trusses of the hall are still evident in the attic rooms.

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