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School, still in use, built in 1893, with facades with wings added in 1903, and was later rebuilt after a fire in 1929. It was paid for out of a trust fund created by William Mackie and was formerly the Mackie Academy, which moved to new premises in 1969 at which time this building became Arduthie Primary School. It is a classically-detailed school constructed from stugged, coursed and squared rubble with finely droved and stugged ashlar dressings. The ground-floor cill level has a rock-faced base, and there is a moulded band course and first floor cill course, eaves cornice and blocking course. There are stone mullions and stop-chamfered arrises, with smaller windows at the first floor. The grey slate roof has a stepped and coped squared rubble gablehead stack and cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers. The buildings comprise three tall, piend-roofed, two-storey, rectangular-plan ranges, with lower entrance links, T-projection and various single-storey ranges to the rear. Pedimented doorpieces incorporate a lugged architrave, keystone, mutuled cornice and two-leaf panelled timber doors, and the west range has keystoned and pilastered arcaded ground-floor windows. The principal north elevation has a centre range with four bipartite windows to each floor and an almost full-width horizontal rooflight, and irregular-fenestration to the returns. Flanking set-back bays incorporate doors and asymmetrical fenestration. A further four-bay range to the west has three arcaded windows at the ground and a small, horizontal four-light window at the first-floor. The return to the east has a further round-arched window at the ground and a tall first-floor window breaking the eaves into a flat dormerhead, with a similar window to the west return. A set-back bay at the outer west has a small ogee-arched window at the ground, with a small window above and two further small first floor windows on the west return. A narrow, plainer range to the outer east has three round-arched windows to ground, a small horizontal four-light window to the first-floor and asymmetrically-fenestrated returns. There are a variety of elements to the west Queen's Road stepped, two-storey elevation, which extends into a single-storey range with three pilastered bays. An isolated gambrel-roofed gymnasium to the south incorporates a tiny window in the gambrel and a decorative terracotta ridge with finials. A further lower piended range has a corbelled angle beyond, and there is a later range with a shaped gable at the outer south. The simple-plan interior has a centre corridor and flanking classrooms, incorporating moulder cornices, vertically-boarded timber dadoes, cast-iron coat pegs, panelled timber doors with margined top lights, some architraved, and a dog-leg staircases with simple ironwork balusters, square-section timber newel posts and timber handrails. The cloakroom has vertically-boarded dadoes, traditional toilet cubicles with vertically-boarded timber doors, handbasins. A mural decoration, possibly from circa 1960 and by a former pupil, depicts the playground with children playing hop-scotch and various other activities and a second scene showing a tree-lined river with a boy lying on his front looking over the bank, and other children sitting with their feet in the water. A top-lit, octagonal-plan, link hall leads to isolated ranges. The gymnasium has a metal-braced, open timber roof, boarded timber walls and a lean-to, timber-lined changing room. There are coped rubble boundary walls, some with inset railings. A war memorial to former pupils stands in front of the school (NO88NE0099).
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