Town Hall, 17 Shore Street, Macduff

Pirie and Clyne, Aberdeen, dated 1884. Baronial town hall.

2-storey and attic, wide 3-bay frontage to Shore Street;

single storey over raised basement wing projects at rear

terminating at Church Street rear entrance gable. Tooled dark

whinstone, contrasting bullfaced and polished ashlar

dressings, rubble flanks and rear.

Slightly advanced centre bay with deep battered bullfaced

base course; rounded-headed centre keystoned entrance with

double-leaf panelled doors; paired flanking round-headed and

keystoned windows. Centre bay rises well above wallhead as

ornately decorative gable flanked by narrow conical roofed

bartizans; gable lit by lunette; centre blind occulus and

finialled pediment carved with knight on horseback (after

manner of that carved on Burgh Cross); gabled wallhead

dormers in outer bays. Single wide canted oriel in 1st floor

outer bays; 2 and 3-pane glazing.

Tall coped end stacks; slate roof.

Rear 6-bay range with simple fenestration; narrow 3-bay gable

with centre entrance and piended slate roof.