Hall, Monboddo Street, Auchenblae

The hall on Monboddo Street, Auchenblae, was designed by Mr Johnstone and built in 1870. It was extended to the north in 1903, and a minor extension was added later in the 20th century. A barometer by John Greig, Stonehaven, dated 1903, is a prominent feature. The hall is a 2-storey building with a tall single-storey section, forming a rectangular plan with 12 bays (grouped 3-5-4), accompanied by a small hall and a former keeper's house, all exhibiting crowstepped gables and dormerheads. The construction is primarily polychrome brick with ashlar details, distinguished by raised base and mutuled eaves courses. Architectural features include segmental- and round-headed openings, single-stage battered-coped buttresses, stone mullions, and a large circular barometer.

The eastern (principal) elevation has three symmetrical bays to the left of centre, displaying a prominent circular barometer and inscription which reads: "This Barometer Presented by George Blackie Stonehaven To the Inhabitants of Auchinblae (sic) His Native Village 1903," above a gabled porch with a round-headed doorcase, a deep-set boarded timber door, and a semicircular fanlight incorporating a small barometer. Windows are located on each floor within gabled flanking bays. Dividing buttresses support bipartite windows in five slightly set-back single-storey bays across the centre, with a timber door to the left. A gabled bay to the right of centre features a round-headed door, a single window in the gablehead, and two further slightly set-back bays with ground-floor windows (the left window altered from a round-headed door) and jettied dormerheaded windows above. A final gabled bay at the outer right incorporates bipartite windows on each floor.

The south elevation is two bays wide, with windows on each floor; the rightmost first-floor window breaks into a dormerhead, and the leftmost into a knee-purl gable. The north elevation has been altered, featuring a flat-roofed extension. The western (rear) elevation shows a variety of elements, including a timber lean-to bay projecting over a stream.

Most windows use 4- and 6-pane glazing patterns within timber sash and case frames. The roof is covered in grey slates with horizontal ironwork ventilators, and brick stacks feature polygonal cans. Ashlar-coped skews display beak skewputts.

Internally, the large public hall has a sprung floor, boarded timber dadoes, a stage, a panelled balcony with decorative consoles and a clock, and a vaulted ceiling with decorative ironwork ventilators. The timber-lined small hall has a kingpost roof.