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Perhaps best known for the treatment of decompression sickness, “the bends”, this unique facility provides a range of services to the…
This Classical Revival church, together with the Arts Centre opposite, makes for an extremely grand entrance to Queen Street. It was originally known…
This former school now provides accommodation for part of the City Archives and for the City Analyst. In the Archives search room there will be a…
This is a volunteer run community centre in Old Torry which organises varied activities for local people, and have a collection of artefacts, books,…
Remodelled and put to a variety of uses over the years, this historic building has been completely renovated and now acts as a “gateway to the…
The People's Dispensary for Sick Animals is a veterinary charity.?The PDSA has been in Aberdeen since the 1950s but has existed nationally since 1917.
A registered educational charity supported by Aberdeen City Council and the Scottish Arts Council, Peacocks has the widest range of visual arts…
It is the only purpose?built Quaker Meeting House still in use in Scotland. It features the plain simplicity of a typical QMH with the Elders' Bench.…
Formerly known as the North Church of St Andrew, this classical revival church, together with the Arts Centre opposite; makes for an extremely grand…
Queen?s Cross Church is one of the best-loved public buildings in Aberdeen. The exterior displays many intricate and unique Victorian architectural…
Forming part of the Garthdee Campus, the building includes cutting edge teaching and learning facilities for Social Care and the advanced technology…
The latest addition to the remarkable collection of modern architecture at the Garthdee campus sits between the Business School and the Faculty of…
Robert Gordon's College is a co-educational independent day school for children aged 3-18 years.
Rosemount Public School opened on 21 February 1887 and cost around ?8000. Today the building houses a variety of different activities and teams.?
Over its 100-year history The Rowett has played a key role in shaping the health of the UK. From showing the health benefits of providing free milk to…
Grampian Hospitals Art Trust is an arts organisation which exists to enhance the wellbeing and experience of all who spend time in hospital.
Opened in 1971, Rubislaw Church Centre is a multi-purpose building used extensively by community and church groups.
A 1875 sandstone church of fine Gothic design featuring intricate woodwork and pews of Canadian pitch pine. The church features an original Victorian…
Described by Historic Scotland as "Early Provence-Auvergne Romanesque" this is a little piece of the mediterranean in Torry built by the Italian…
Externally one of Aberdeen’s most prominent landmarks.
The Citadel is approaching its 140th anniversary and will be opening its refurbished Worship Hall and Caf? for the day.
Enter by the main Court entrance, 2 doors along from the Town House. Tour with an experienced member of court staff talking about the history of the…
The Sir Ian Wood building provides students and staff with state of the art teaching and learning facilities. It accommodates both formal and informal…
The Society of Advocates in Aberdeen has been in existence for more than four hundred and fifty years. The Society's present building was sited to…
The church contains the national memorial to Samuel Seabury, consecrated first Bishop of America in Long Acre, Aberdeen, on 14th November 1784. Roof…
A near contemporary with the North Anderson Drive Mormon Church, St Clement's with its synthetic granite is clearly more home-grown but is not without…
Cruciform in plan with tower. Timber wagon roof inside. Modern gallery added to accommodate an expanding congregation. Good Wadsworth organ of…
Built as a more convenient alternative to Nigg Church as Torry became the main centre of population south of the Dee. The building was never…
Externally the stump of a tower was the result of the loss of a legacy when the congregation chose to move from the Church of England to the Scottish…
Situated at St Johns Place (off Crown Terrace). The north aisle was added in 1898 with the tower being constructed in 1913.
Artec Eva scan of Walter Ydil, Canon of St Machar’s Cathedral. The inscription translated from Latin reads ‘Here lies the Honorable man Master Walter…
A feature of his windows and statues is that he often used family likenesses in the faces portrayed. Take your time to look around soaking up the…
Set inside an adapted series of granite buildings this school dates from 1846. Take this rare opportunity to tour the buildings and learn about the…
Basically a parish kirk, given civic prominence by the addition of the giant Corinthian portico, and dome. Interesting stained glass and woodwork…
St Mary?s Cathedral is a ?B? listed historic building set in the centre of Aberdeen. It was built in 1860 and houses many interesting features…
The Chapel dates back to circa 1450 and features a stone vaulted ceiling, carved wood of 16th and 17th century, grave slabs, stained glass and other…
Known locally as the Tartan Kirkie because of the polychromatic granite and sandstone masonry and the geometric patterns formed by the roofing slates.…
St Ninian?s was opened in 1936 as a Mission church as outreach from St Andrew?s Cathedral in the growing community of Seaton. The building was…
The church is hidden away off the Castlegate, from an elegant arched gateway incorporated into an 1843 tenement and a pend leads into the delightful…
There has been a chapel to St Peter on this site since 12C. The 18C church was rectangular in plan and was extended and altered in 1873 and 1895. In…
Sue Ryder Dee View Court is a specialist neurological care centre in Kincorth, Aberdeen, caring for people aged 18 and over with life-changing…
This striking. timber-clad building is designed to maximise natural daylight and ventilation, to reduce solar gain and provide a state-of-the-art…
This is a traditional Synagogue serving the Grampian and North East region There is no permanent Rabbi, but the centre still hosts a series of social,…
The site now houses two arts organisations - All In Ideas and Citymoves Dance Agency.? The building has been repurposed as a progressive multi art…
At 9 Dunbar Street this was the Coach House for the Powis Estate. The Building contained the livery stable and was also the accommodation for the…
The Oil & Gas Technology Centre is opening its doors to showcase its state-of-the-art Innovation Hub and give an insight into how the organisation…
The old Pilot House is a rare survivor of its type, notable for its octagonal shape and relatively early date. It only ceased to operate as the…
The Special Collections Centre and NHS Grampian Archives will have on display items from their rich and historic archive and printed book collections.
The Victorian fa?ade conceals a much older building behind. The Tolbooth was built as the Town?s prison, court house and toll collection point.This…
Great opportunity to visit the new Community Hub in Tillydrone during the construction phase. The hub will include a range of local services to…
Although not used as a theatre since 1963,?it's subsequent use as a bingo hall left Frank Matcham's 1909 remodelling of the?auditorium largely intact…
The church itself has a number of features, including the altar table, modelled exactly on that in the church they had previously occupied in Victoria…
The Town House was built to a competition-winning design by the Edinburgh architectural firm of Peddie & Kinnear. Its great tower was for decades…
This is the third Trinity Hall to be occupied by the Seven Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen. The current building (1967) re-uses the traceried windows…
Located at the quayside, TS Scylla is a series of linked 1930s Nissen huts. The building was originally used by the barrage balloon unit during WW2…
A little-altered example of 1930s modernist architecture and a familiar landmark to everybody arriving in Aberdeen by train from the south. The school…
The building of Union Street was a considerable feat of engineering. Union Bridge over the Denburn valley is the largest and most visible of a series…
Unitarian church - place of worship.
The Special Collections Centre is the home of the University's historic books and archives.
The University of Aberdeen?s Institute of Medical Sciences accommodates over 400 scientists and research staff.?Stands in the atrium will showcase…
The University was founded in 1495 and the chapel is the oldest surviving building. Inside are the finest surviving pre-Reformation choir stalls and…
Established in 1995 to research and?promote the culture of the North East and North of Scotland, the Elphinstone Institute welcomes all to explore our…
By A Marshall Mackenzie and A G R Mackenzie 1923-5. Although everybody knows the quadrant colonnade and lion sculpture on the corner of the Art…
Meet the scientists at the cutting edge of research and see where it all happens, in the University of Aberdeen's research and teaching labs.
The Zoology Museum is the only zoological museum in the region and boasts one of the largest collections in Scotland including animals of the world,…
Dating from around 1676, this old merchant�s house was once where multiple families shared lodgings. A stone spiral staircase takes you up 3 floors to…
A magnificent category B Listed Georgian townhouse recently completed restrored by the North East Scotland Preservation Trust.
Number 4 Old Castlegate is part of a three-storey, category B Listed mid-18th century townhouse. It was abandoned by its former owners in 1988 and…
�This small 'But & Ben' house sat derelict and uninhabited for over half a century. A family outing to Inverallochy and to nearby Maggie's Hoosie…
Aberdeenshire Museums Service HQ (AMS) is the first publicly accessible store for the county?s museum service, and was built with a substantial grant…
A wide range of heritage building materials for sale, including slates, pantiles, chimney pots, ridge tiles, gutters, granite lintels and blocks,…
Aboyne & Glen Tanar Memorial Hall, known as the ?Victory Hall?, is set in the heart of the village of Aboyne, Royal Deeside. It is a substantial…
Visitors will get tour of station and shown round appliances and equipment. Community Safety stands, with various CS literature and merchandise.…
1859, Category B listed. The former church was built in 1859 in the Gothic style and its ecclesiastical use continued after the union of the…
�Designed for George Coats, cotton thread manufacturer in Paisley, who became Baron of Glentanar, the church is a Category A listed building built in…
Come along and visit us at the Hub at the West Church and Acorn Centre Inverurie on the first floor.The Category B listed Church building was altered…
The Alford Heritage Centre is housed in the last of the original? Marts (or Auction) buildings to survive in the North East of Scotland. Marts used to…
The B listed church was designed by architect James Matthews in 1858 at the commission of Major Ramsay, Laird of Straloch. The building was…
The unfortunate eastern extension, and removal of original glazing bars, has damaged the proportions of this classical granite mansion. The diminutive…
17th century, 5 acre walled garden on steep south facing slope, adjacent to Arbuthnott House.?.
A fine modern building meticulously placed within the Aberdeenshire landscape. Cut into the hill its simple earthen forms echo prehistoric structures…
Come and visit the abandoned 18th-19th Century "ferm toun" (farm town) with it's restored cruck farmed cottage. Be prepared for the 2.5 mile (4 km)…
The buildings owned by the North East Preservation Trust (NESPT) are situated to the east of the Burn of Durn, which flows into the Moray Firth at…
Built by a cadet of Forbes of Corsindae, Balfluig was burnt by Montrose'e men after the battle of Alford in 1645. Farquharson of Haughton bought the…
Ballater fire station provides fire cover for the community of Ballater and the surrounding area. Ballater is a retained station and is crewed by…
Category C Listed, the Lodge was purpose built in 1896 by local builders William Duguid and Son. Ballater Masonic Lodge is a distinctive building with…
An opportunity to take a short walking tour of Ballogie Estates Home Farm and Ballogie House. The impressive Home Farm was constructed in a court-yard…
Banchory Fire Station gave a chance for members of the public to see inside the station, view the equipment and meet station personnel who will be…
Bandodle House replaces a 200-year-old single storey croft hosue and is part of a larger scheme of managing 11.5 hectares of farmland to enhance…
This Georgian building by John Adam, was constructed on part of the site of the original medieval Castle, of which parts of two walls and a good…
As it proclaims on its frontage, this was built as a "Wesleyan Methodist Chapel". Since 1932 it has simply been a Methodist Church. It is a…
Built in 1789, by Andrew Wilson architect and builder, with the tower added in 1849 by William Robertson. The chancel was added and interior altered…
This was built as the Commercial Bank, and banks had to look prosperous and built to last, to persuade people to put their money there, so this has…
This was originally known as Wilson?s Academy, and combined the school with the predecessor of the present Banff Museum. This is a fine classical…
This has a majestic classical Renaissance frontage, with Corinthian portico and balustraded viewing platform above, from which, till recently,…
18th century U-plan town house, with distinctive 3-bay main frontage (facing west) with Venetian first floor window, and featuring a well-preserved,…