Albert Memorial Hall, Station Square, Ballater

W Duigid and Son (Ballater) builders. Albert Memorial Hall, 1875, Gordon Institute and Victoria Hall, 1895. Predominantly 2-storey asymmetrical U-plan multi-gabled hall group with 3-stage crenellated tower at E re-entrant angle. Pink coursed granite with grey granite dressings. Courtyard directly opposite Ballater station (see separate listing). Grey granite base course, band courses and eaves course. Consoled stone balconies above entrance doors. Some later minor additions.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: angled corner entrance to Albert Hall to left, pinnacled and advanced to 1st and attic storey with commemorative plaque (see Notes). Gordon Institute with central advanced full height gabled entrance bay. Victoria Hall to right with gable to N with 4-panel timber door set within gables and ball-finialled entrance porch.

Predominantly timber 6-pane bipartite sash and case windows. Late 20th century oculus stained glass gable window to E. Grey graded slates. Decorative ridge tiles, conical and triangular ventilation openings. Gable finials. Ashlar coped skews, some gabled skewputts.

INTERIOR: some original features retained in Albert and Victoria halls, including pine panelling at dado height and 4-panel timber doors. Other areas comprehensively modernised. Open timber ceiling with trefoil motif springs from stone corbels.