Former East School, St Aidan's Church Hall, Brook Street

Maclaren and Aitken, 1874. Little altered, well-detailed single storey, T-plan, gabled former school with classical detailing, adjacent to former St Aidan's Church (now Broughty Ferry New Kirk) prominently sited at crossroads of Brook Street and St Vincent Street. Rectangular-plan doorpieces incorporating semicircular-arched keystoned doors, blind frieze, cornice and pierced balustrade; broad gables with segmental windowheads and louvered occuli framed by elongated consoles; finialled and pedimented dormerheads breaking eaves; segmental- and square-headed windows. Roughly squared snecked rubble with contrasting blond sandstone stugged dressings framing openings and droved quoin strips. Broad base and cill courses. Stone transoms and mullions, raked cills and stop-chamfered arrises.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: symmetrical principal elevation to W with projecting centre gable incorporating 4-light transomed window rising into segmental pediment, oculus and Dutch-style gablehead, and single flanking windows; each return with bipartite and single windows below triangular-pedimented dormerheads. Set-back bays to left with single window at broad outer left gable, centre bays with balustraded doorpiece flanked by small horizontal tripartite to left and bipartite window to right, and broad doorway in re-entrant angle. Bays to right of centre mirror the above with additional small segmental dormer window over tripartite and retaining 2-leaf panelled timber door.

Largely 8-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows, some boarded externally. Graded grey slates; stepped roofline. Cavetto coped shouldered ashlar gablehead stacks. Ashlar-coped skews with moulded skewputts.

INTERIOR: some panelled doors, boarded timber dadoes and moulded cornicing retained. Large centre room with hammerbeam type roof and flanking rooms with narrow cast iron supporting columns.