Milne's High School, High Street, Fochabers

Milne's High School, located on High Street in Fochabers, was designed by Thomas Mackenzie and built between 1845 and 1846. This two-storey square school is in the Neo-Tudor style, featuring a principal elevation facing north and mirrored return elevations to the east and west. The building is constructed with tooled ashlar and polished ashlar sandstone dressings.

The principal north elevation has nine bays, with the outer and center bays advanced and linked by three-bay arcades that create a terrace above the first-floor windows. The center bay features a full-height hoodmoulded arch that frames a recessed entrance and a first-floor window. Clasping octagonal buttresses rise above the wallhead, culminating in cusped octagonal pinnacles with exaggerated stiff-leaf finials. The crenellated wallhead supports a niche that houses a statue of the founder, which is crowned similarly to the pinnacles but is more ornate. There is also a substantial oriel window on the first floor of the outer bays.

The east and west elevations each consist of seven bays, with an advanced center bay that has a hoodmoulded Tudor arched entrance. The ground floor fenestration is treated similarly, and the center first-floor window is set under a stepped hoodmould. The windows feature multi-pane margined glazing, and a continuous string course links all first-floor windows.

At the rear elevation, a square tower rises a single stage above the center of the building, adorned with crenellated angle finials and a wallhead. Each advanced bay has similarly detailed octagonal angle turrets, and the wallhead features decorative crenellation with intermediate finials. The building is topped with slate roofs.

In front of the school, there is a low terrace with an ashlar retaining wall and a shallow flight of steps. The interior includes a main assembly hall that is fitted as a gymnasium, and a wide stone staircase leads to the first floor.

The enclosing walls feature a low coped retaining wall along the High Street frontage, with an entrance flanked by octagonal ashlar gatepiers topped with ornate stiff-leaf finialled caps. The site is enclosed with a coped wall, and simple ashlar gatepiers flank the west entrance to Institution Road.