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School, still in use, built by William Robertson, Elgin, in 1837-38. It was financed by money left by James Wilson, and is also known as Wilson's Academy. It was extended to the rear by A Marshall Mackenzie, Aberdeen, in 1898, with the extension repaired after a fire in 1921. It has a Neo-Greek, long single-storey 15-bay classical frontage. The main east-facing frontage and return gables are constructed of sandstone ashlar, and the rear is harled. There is an advanced Ionic hexastyle portico with a coffered ceiling, with the centre door below a shallow pediment, with moulded jambs to the doorway and single flanking windows. The wide end pavilion bays are slightly advanced, each with a centre window and coupled clasping pilasters with composite capitals, the outer pilasters return as angle pilasters matched by similar flanking single bay return gables. A deep corniced blocking course masks a shallow piended slate roof. The portico is approached by a wide, shallow flight of steps, flanked at the top by mirrored single pedestal lamp standards. There are also squat, square polished ashlar margined plinths with shallow pyramidal caps. The 1898 rear extension is a substantial two-storey harled block, with tooled ashlar margins to all windows and a piended slate roof. Inside, there is a 1837-38 coffered ceiling to the centre hall, now used as a gym, and a studded, curved handrail to staircase serving the first floor of rear block. Elsewhere the interior has been modernised.
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