Masonic Hall, Charlestown Road, Aboyne

The Masonic Hall on Charlestown Road in Aboyne is a former Free Church built in 1859, designed in a rectangular Gothic style. It features a square-plan tower and a hall at the rear, constructed from squared pink granite blocks with finely finished pink sandstone dressings. The building has diagonal buttresses and pointed-arched window and door openings.

On the northwest elevation, the entrance tower rises in two stages to a stone spire. It has a moulded, chamfered doorway at the ground floor with a two-leaf boarded timber door, and a round window above. The second stage includes tripartite louvred openings with a clock face on the front, and four columned and pedimented lucarnes at the broached spire, along with four smaller lucarnes. There is a window in each flanking bay, with single-storey squinches at the re-entrant angles.

The southwest elevation is near-symmetrical with three bays, each containing a window, although it is currently undergoing alterations. An advanced single bay is located on the outer right, featuring a bipartite window in the centre, and a doorway and window on the left return; the right return was not visible in 1998.

The southeast elevation has its ground floor obscured by the hall, but features a wheel window set in the gablehead. The northeast elevation is also near-symmetrical with three bays, each containing a window.

The building has diamond-pane leaded windows and a graded grey slate roof with stone skews and mannered skewputs. A coped gablehead stack with a circular can is located on the southeast side.

Inside, there is a dais and a round-headed half-columned reredos at the ecclesiastical east end, along with a wagon roof featuring stencilled decoration and corbelled wall posts.