The Cottage, Ballater Road, Aboyne

The Cottage on Ballater Road in Aboyne is a house built in the late 19th century, with additions and alterations from the early 20th century. It is a two-storey and attic structure with three bays, constructed from coursed granite rubble and harled, featuring timber details on the south elevation and timber bargeboards.

The principal elevation faces south and is symmetrical, showing signs of early 20th-century alterations. It has a boarded and glazed two-leaf timber door at the center of the ground floor, topped by a four-pane fanlight. To the left and right of the door, there are three-light vertical windows below the eaves, and on either side, there are eight-light canted windows in the bays. The attic features a broad gabled dormer with an eight-light bipartite window and a terracotta finial at the apex.

The east elevation is asymmetrical, with a single window off-center to the left on the ground floor. The north elevation is also asymmetrical and consists of three bays, with gabled bays in the center and right. It has a modern window at the center of the ground floor, flanked on the right by a single-pane window and a glazed boarded timber door. There are two windows set in the gablehead, and a boarded timber door is located on the left return. A window is present in the ground floor of a recessed bay to the left, along with a piend-roofed 20th-century dormer above.

The west elevation was not visible in 1999. The house features predominantly two-pane and four-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey fishscale slate roof with a decorative terracotta ridge, and coped tooled granite gablehead stacks with circular cans. It also has cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen in 1999. The property is enclosed by granite rubble boundary walls to the south and east, which have rubble coping. Additionally, there is a single-storey, L-plan former outbuilding made of tooled coursed granite rubble, which incorporates a cottage and garage. This outbuilding features predominantly timber sash and case windows and boarded timber doors, along with a grey-green fishscale slate roof that has a decorative terracotta ridge.