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Former school, now disused, dated 1877 with some 20th century additions. When the new school was built in Ballater in the 1960s, the pupils were transferred there. It was then used as an Outdoor Centre, but was disused in the 1990s. The former headmistresses' house remains in residential use. It is a single storey, irregular-plan purpose-built school building and a pair of schoolhouses, constructed from coursed, pinned pink and grey granite with a base course, and has raised coped skews and skewputts. The south principal elevation has schoolhouses to the outer bays: that to the west is two-storey and three-bay, with a later single-storey and attic to the west. That to the east is two-storey and three-bay. Both have pedimented dormerheads breaking the eaves, and an advanced gable. The schoolhouse to the west was the headmistress' house, and to the east the headmaster's. The headmaster's house had a small private garden that some of the pupils learned gardening. The schoolhouses are linked by a lower single-storey four-bay section, forming the boys' and girls' entrances with a pair of entrance doors that have pedimented gableheads breaking the eaves and distinctive nine-pane glazed gently pointed fanlights. Attached to the rear west is a single-storey, three-bay, gabled, gothic schoolroom, orientated west-east, with a gabled bellcote and bell at mid-roofline on the east gable. There are some bipartite and tripartite Y-tracery timber windows. Attached to the rear east is a five-bay single-storey classroom range, with gothic window openings and pedimented gableheads breaking the eaves. It has a single-storey linking corridor at the rear, to a square double-height classroom building with a half-piended roof and large paired windows. There is a diversity of window types throughout. The houses have four-pane timber sash and case windows. The square classroom to the north has large, timber six over nine-pane sash and case windows. Elsewhere there are large, predominantly timber transomed and mullioned multi-paned fixed windows, some with top opening panes to other rooms. The grey slate roofs have gable and wallhead stacks with canted copings. The interior has been extensively modernised. One double-height classroom building has dado rail pine panelling. There is a low, rubble boundary wall, constructed of granite to the south, with saddleback coping and interspersed with gabled piers. To the east and west is a high, granite rubble wall with rubble saddleback coping. Standing building survey was carried out by Cameron Archaeology in January 2019.
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