Office Block, Former Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Works Site, Kessock Road, Maconochie Road, Fraserburgh

Louis Christian Mullgardt, 1903-1906. Engineering building complex comprised of 2-storey, 9-bay rectangular-plan office block, 2-gabled rectangular-plan harled former machine workshop to rear; slightly later single storey, 4-bay rectangular-plan former workshop to right of office block. Buildings set on prominent corner site within larger industrial works complex (See Notes).

Squared, coursed and tooled Pitsligo granite with Rora granite ashlar dressings. Base course; band course to left range. Segmental-arched, keystoned and mullioned tripartite windows at ground floor; shouldered gabled breaking-eaves dormers. Distinctive glazed and timber boarded sawtoothed roof to former machine shop.

OFFICE BLOCK (1903-6) AND FORMER WORKSHOP (early 20th century), W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 9 and 4 bays. Off-centre advanced 2-bay shouldered entrance gable with buttressed corners and central pier; paired entrances with segmental arched and keystoned fanlights and deep-set later entrance doors. Band course and linear glazed clerestory to later workshop. N Elevation: 3-bay gable with tripartite windows at ground floor and pair of flat-arched window at first floor with relieving arch above.

MACHINE SHOP (1903-6) (N ELEVATION): 2 gables to left of office block; timber eaves course; clerestory formed by sawtooth roof; later flat-arched entrance opening to left.

Predominantly plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Pitched roof, grey slates; some rooflights to right of 9-bay range; straight ashlar skews. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR (seen 2011): later 20th and early 21st century remodelling and subdivision of office section. Open-plan former machine shop with steel structure original steel columns and steel roof trusses to machine shop.

BOUNDARY WALLS, RAILINGS AND GATEPIERS: low granite boundary walls with chamfered copes and topped with cast iron railings. Square-plan gatepiers with rockfaced base and pyramidal capping. 2-leaf cast-iron gates to S opening.