Stonehaven Station, Station Road, Stonehaven

Stonehaven Station, built in 1849 for the Aberdeen Railway Company, was extended in the late 19th century and restored in 2000. It is a 2-platform through station with an Italianate-influenced main office building of two storeys and four bays, with a later single-storey wing, on the up platform. A decorative timber awning, supported by cast-iron columns with scrolled braces, covers the platform. A signal box stands on the platform to the left.

The building is constructed of squared, coursed dressed rubble with bull-faced dressings. It features round-arched openings, some bipartite and set within a round-arched frame, and others arcaded with pilaster mullions. A keystoned window sits at the centre of the southeast elevation. A cill course runs along the first floor, with stone mullions and voussoirs visible.

The southeast elevation, which serves as the main entrance, has an advanced gable to the left of centre, with a full-height framed bipartite window at ground level and a smaller similar window above. A recessed bay at the outer left has a dwarf wall to the left of steps, leading to a two-leaf panelled timber door and a glazed segmental fanlight. To the outer right at ground level is a modern two-leaf glazed door with a radial semicircular fanlight, and a window with a similar fanlight in the penultimate bay to the right. A modern glazed canopy, supported by decorative timber brackets and stone corbels, extends between the floors, featuring a single decorative metal column. A set-back, single-storey wing is situated to the right, with six irregularly-disposed windows (three to the right as narrow lights). Modern wall-mounted metal lamps, modern stairs, and a disabled access ramp are also present to the right.

The northeast elevation features a single-storey gabled bay with a small horizontal barred window at the centre and a lean-to vertically-boarded timber shed to the right.

The southwest elevation shows a tall gabled bay, containing a segmental-arched vertically-boarded timber door at ground level and a bipartite window at first floor level.

The northwest (platform) elevation presents the rear of the station building to the left, with a variety of panelled timber doors and windows, and a vertically-boarded timber wall extending to the outer right, punctuated with windows and false doors. These elements are located behind a platform awning.

The platform awning at first-floor level is a top-lit timber canopy with a decorative pierced timber valance, cantilevered over the platform on cast-iron columns with large scrolled ironwork brackets.

Most windows are timber sash and case. The roof is covered in grey slates with a stone ridge. Coped ridge stacks have decorative arrowslits and circular cans. Deeply overhanging eaves feature plain timber barge boards, exposed rafter ends, decorative timber brackets, and snowboards. Cast-iron rainwater goods are in place.

The interior, viewed in 2006, has been largely remodelled but retains moulded plasterwork cornices and vertically-boarded timber dadoes in the ticket hall and staircase.

The signal box, located near Map Reference NO 86419, 86210, has a piend roof and a rectangular plan. It features a painted brick base with two blocked round-arched openings flanking a shallow projection at the centre, and small-pane glazing within a timber frame. A small boarded timber outshot is located to the left at the southeast, and a timber forestair provides access to the signal cabin. The roof is covered in grey slate.