Don Bank Cottage, Bridge Of Alford

Don Bank Cottage is a 2-storey, 3-bay villa built around 1885. It has a rectangular plan and features asymmetrical gabled roofs with barge-boarded, canted gables on timber dormers that break the eaves, ending in cast-iron finials. The exterior is constructed with squared bull-faced granite courses, accented by yellow ashlar sandstone margins around the openings. There is a base course, a slightly projecting stringcourse between the first and second storeys, and a bull-faced eaves course. The principal windows have sandstone mullions.

On the south elevation, the entrance door is centrally located and features a chamfered letterbox fanlight above it. There is a small dormer window on the second storey. To the left, an advanced gabled bay is present, with a slightly advanced 3-light window in the centre that has a piended slate roof. Above this, there is a bipartite window with a small stone canopy at the gablehead, topped with a stone finial. To the right, there is a 3-light, advanced canted bay with a piended slate roof and a canted dormer on the second storey.

The north elevation has irregular fenestration and square-headed dormers that break the eaves. The east side elevation is adjacent to the former Bridge of Alford Stores building, while the west side elevation features a blind gable end. The windows throughout the cottage are 4-pane timber frame sash and case types. The roof is covered with grey slates and has lead flashing, with sawtooth-coped skews and coped gable stacks.

Inside, the cottage has timber panelled doors, skirting, dado, and balusters, along with plain plasterwork. The boundary wall surrounding the small front garden is low and made of coped bull-faced granite courses, featuring a stepped wallhead on the right return and pyramid-capped gatepiers.