Bridgend Cottage, Bridgeview Road, Aboyne

Dating from 1830, Bridgend Cottage is a single-storey and attic, three-bay, rectangular former toll house situated on Bridgeview Road, Aboyne. The building is constructed of V-jointed, rusticated, finely finished granite, with a tooled pink granite base course. Recessed, segmental-arched door and window surrounds are highlighted with voussoir detail, and a decorative eaves cornice runs along the top.

The principal, northeast elevation is symmetrical, featuring a granite doorway with recessed panels and a decorative fanlight above a two-leaf panelled timber door. Flanking windows are present in the left and right bays. The southeast elevation is also symmetrical, with a single bay showing a tripartite window with a matching fanlight, and a gableted dormer window to the attic floor. A two-bay addition is situated to the left, finished with finely detailed margins and projecting sills; it contains a bipartite window to the right bay and a 16-light window to the left bay. A segmental-arched dormer window is present in the attic, and a two-pane skylight sits to the right.

The southwest elevation is asymmetrical, built with gabled granite rubble, with a window positioned off-centre on the right of the ground floor. A squared and snecked pink granite lean-to addition is on the left, and a modern window is set within what was previously an infilled doorway. The northwest elevation presents a symmetrical single bay with a blinded window (formerly aligned similarly to the southwest elevation) and an intricately carved decorative timber panel. A gableted dormer is present on the attic floor. A three-bay, squared and snecked pink sandstone addition extends to the right, featuring a glazed boarded timber doorway in the left bay, an irregularly placed window in the remainder, and a skylight to the right of the attic floor. A flat-roofed addition with a bipartite window is present to the left.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows are found throughout, with a mixture of later glazing. The roof is piended and covered in graded grey slate, with lead ridges and overhanging timber eaves. Original features include a coped triple ridge stack, a coped gablehead stack to the southwest, a coped octagonal wallhead stack to the west angle, and circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are fitted.

The interior of the cottage was not inspected in 1998.

A low granite coped boundary wall extends along the northeast side, topped with radial patterned cast-iron railings featuring rosette roundels at intersections and urn finials. A two-leaf pedestrian gate is located to the left, with square-plan ironwork gatepiers; a vehicle gate is to the right with a two-leaf gate and rough-faced gatepiers topped with pyramidal caps. Coped circular-plan piers are found at the centre and outer left (adjacent to a bridge).

A single-storey and attic, single-bay, square-plan granite rubble garage is also present. It features a double, sliding glazed boarded timber door to the northeast, a window to the southwest, a boarded timber door to the southeast, and dormers to the attic. The roof is piended, covered in grey slate with a cement ridge, with overhanging eaves, and features cast-iron rainwater goods.