4 Rickarton Cottages, Bridgefield, Stonehaven

2 Rickarton Cottages, located in Bridgefield, Stonehaven, were built between 1875 and 1876. This single-storey and attic, 8-bay terrace of cottages features rusticated porches and a central pavilion with a timber verandah. The exterior is characterized by narrow bands of stugged ashlar with contrasting droved ashlar dressings that are two courses deep. The first floor has pointed-arch openings in the center.

On the west elevation, the central gabled bays (No 3) include a panelled timber door on the left and a broad window on the right, which has been altered from its original bipartite form. This is situated beneath a full-width verandah with a bracketed cornice and a cast-iron parapet. The first floor retains two original openings at the left and center, with the left side featuring a replaced Y-traceried window and the center displaying an inscribed panel. The right bay has a later 5-light, dentilled, and corniced flat-roofed canted window. The bays to the left of center (Nos 4 and 5) remain unaltered, showcasing paired panelled timber doors at the center beneath a gabled open timber porch, with narrow flanking lights and tripartite windows in the outer bays, which have tripartite gabled dormers above small modern rooflights. The bays to the right (Nos 1 and 2) mirror those on the left but have altered windows and additional dormers that are out of character.

The cottages feature plate glass glazing in the timber sash and case windows of Nos 4 and 5, while other windows have late 20th-century glazing that is out of character. The roofs are covered with grey slates and decorative terracotta cresting, and there are coped ashlar stacks with cans. The eaves overhang with exposed rafters and plain bargeboarding.

Inside, No 3 has moulded plasterwork cornices, timber dadoes, a staircase with decorative cast-iron balusters, and a sandstone fireplace. No 4 retains its original fireplace, timber work, and staircase with decorative cast-iron balusters.

The boundary walls are low saddleback-coped ashlar with battered ashlar gatepiers at No 3, and decorative cast-iron railings are present at No 5.