Masonic Hall, Charlestown Road, Aboyne is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 May 1997. Former Free church. 1 related planning application.
Masonic Hall, Charlestown Road, Aboyne
- WRENN ID
- lost-stair-umber
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1997
- Type
- Former Free church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
- Rectangular-plan Gothic former Free church with square-plan tower and hall to rear. Squared pink granite blocks with finely finished pink sandstone dressings. Diagonal buttresses; pointed-arched window and door openings.
NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: Entrance Tower: 2-stage rising to stone spire; moulded, chamfered doorway to ground floor, 2-leaf boarded timber door; round window above; tripartite louvred openings to 2nd stage with clock face to front; 4 columned and pedimented lucarnes at broached spire with 4 further (smaller) lucarnes; Masonic symbol finial. Window to each flanking bay with single storey squinches to re-entrant angles.
SW ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; 3-bay, window to each bay (currently undergoing alteration). Single bay advanced to outer right, bipartite window to centre, doorway and window to left return, right return not seen 1998.
SE ELEVATION: ground floor obscured by hall; wheel window set in gablehead.
NE ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; 3-bay; window to each bay.
Diamond-pane leaded windows. Graded grey slate roof with stone skews and mannered skewputs. Coped gablehead stack with circular can to SE.
INTERIOR: dais and round-headed half-columned reredos to (ecclesiastical) east end; wagon roof with stencilled decoration, corbelled wall posts.
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