Charlestown Cottages, Station Square, Aboyne

Charlestown Cottages, located at Station Square in Aboyne, is a row of cottages likely designed by George Truefitt in the late 19th century. This two-storey and attic structure features a rectangular plan with nine bays. The exterior is made of rough-faced squared and snecked pink and grey granite, which is finely finished at the edges. Notable architectural elements include a dividing band course, sloped projecting cills, bipartite windows, and piend-roofed dormers that break the eaves at the attic level.

The south elevation is asymmetrical with nine bays and a regular arrangement of windows in the central bay, the right flanking bay, and the penultimate bays on both sides of the ground floor. There are infilled openings with segmental arches in the third and fourth bays from the left on the ground floor. A modern door in the third bay from the right has a tooled lintel inscribed with "CHARLESTON COTTAGES" and is accompanied by two small windows above. To the outer right of the ground floor, there is a single window flanked by a deeply chamfered outer angle, with a bipartite window above it and a tooled stone marked "WCB" (William Cunliffe Brooks). The outer left features a square-plan tower with a panelled modern door, a six-pane window at ground level to the left, and a single window on the first floor that rises to a circular turret topped with an ironwork finial. The attic floor has near-regular fenestration.

The east elevation is also asymmetrical, with a chamfered angle on the outer left, a small single-pane window below the eaves on the right, and a boundary wall adjoining to the outer right. The north elevation has its ground floor obscured and features irregular fenestration. The west elevation is obscured by an adjoining building.

The cottages have predominantly modern glazing and a piended red tiled roof with terracotta ridges. Tall, coped wallhead stacks with circular flues and cast-iron rainwater goods are present.

The interior was not seen in 1998. Additionally, there is a stepped boundary wall to the northeast, made of coped rough-faced granite.