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Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 562833
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/562833
From the castle the town is approached via a tree-lined avenue, leading to Gordon Schools, 1839-41, Archibald Simpson; 1888 additions, a Marshall Mackenzie (Matthews & Mackenzie), founded on the site of castle port by the Duchess of Gordon in memory of the fifth Duke; Simpson's work is serene and Jacobean, two storeys of ashlar sandstone, symmetrical about a centre pend arch crowned by an ogeecapped octagonal tower. Mackenzie's additions blend well.
Other buildings include, on west of avenue, old Public School, 1895, Marshall Mackenzie, with secondary department as addition by William Kelly, c.1912, strong, two-storey Tudor, with three asymmetrical gables to front, mullioned windows and heavy chimneys. Around this is wrapped a single-storey 1930s style (built 1956) extension with good granite bow and a two-storey hall with tall concrete pilasters. Latest building is a discrete three-storey flat-roofer, in creamy brick and glass.
Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
