Bridgend Cottage, Bridgeview Road, Aboyne

1. Single storey and attic, 3-bay, rectangular-plan former toll house. V-jointed, rusticated, finely finished granite. Tooled pink granite base course; recessed, segmental-arched door and window surrounds with voussoir detail, eaves cornice.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; granite doorway with slightly recessed panels surmounted by decorative fanlight, 2-leaf panelled timber door; window to flanking bay to left and right.

SE ELEVATION: symmetrical; single bay; tripartite window with decorative fanlight matching doorway; gableted dormer to attic floor. Harled 2-bay addition to left, finely finished margins and projecting cills; bipartite window to bay to right, 16-light window to bay to left; segmental-arched dormer to attic, flanked to right by 2-pane skylight.

SW ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled granite rubble with window off-centre to right of ground floor; squared and snecked pink granite lean-to addition to left; modern window with top hopper set in infilled doorway.

NW ELEVATION: symmetrical; single bay; blinded window (formerly as above) to centre of ground floor, intricately carved decorative timber panel; gableted dormer to attic floor. 3-bay, squared and snecked pink sandstone addition to right; glazed boarded timber doorway to bay to left, irregularly placed window to remainder; skylight to right of attic floor; flat-roofed addition with bipartite window to left.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows with variety of later glazing. Piended graded grey slate roof with lead ridges and overhanging timber eaves. Coped triple ridge stack to original cottage; coped gablehead stack to SW; coped octagonal wallhead stack to W angle; circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

GATES, GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL: low granite coped boundary wall to NE surmounted by radial patterned cast-iron railings, rosette roundels at intersections and urn finials. Pedestrian 2-leaf gate to left with square-plan ironwork gatepiers; vehicle gate to right with 2-leaf gate and square plan, rough-faced gatepiers with pyramidal caps; coped circular-plan piers to centre and outer left (adjoining bridge to far left).

ANCILLARY STRUCTURE: single storey and attic, single bay, square-plan granite rubble garage; double, sliding glazed boarded timber door to NE, window to SW, boarded timber door to SE, dormers to attic. Piended grey slate roof with cement ridge; overhanging eaves. Cast-iron rainwater goods.