East Mains, Gofl Road, Aboyne Castle

East Mains, located on Golf Road at Aboyne Castle, is a former farmhouse dating from the mid-19th century. It is a single-storey and attic building with an L-shaped plan, featuring three bays. The exterior is constructed from tooled coursed granite rubble, which is finely finished at the margins, and includes long and short dressings, as well as canted dormers on the attic floor.

The principal elevation is symmetrical, with a corniced doorway at the center of the ground floor, which has a panelled timber door topped by a 2-pane fanlight. There is a window in each of the flanking bays. A 2-light skylight is positioned in the center of the attic floor, flanked by dormers on both sides.

The northeast elevation is asymmetrical and consists of two bays, with a gabled bay on the left that has a window on the ground floor, and a small skylight in the right bay of the attic floor.

The west elevation is also asymmetrical, featuring an advanced gabled bay on the left and a lean-to conservatory on the ground floor, which includes a window set in the gablehead. The right return and left bay were not visible in 1998.

The south elevation is nearly symmetrical, with a gabled design and a single-storey addition advanced to the left on the ground floor.

The building primarily has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, and the roof is made of grey slate with a stone ridge. The gables have coped stone skews with simple skewputs, and there are tooled coped granite gablehead stacks with circular and octagonal cans. The rainwater goods are made of cast iron. The interior was not seen in 1998.