Former Station, Station Square, Aboyne

1. Single storey, 15-bay, rectangular-plan former station. Tooled coursed granite with finely finished margins. Base course; rounded projecting cills to N elevation; segmental-arched openings to S elevation; eaves course; stone label stops originally from cast-iron canopy survive to S.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; centre 4 bays slightly advanced and stepped up, modern glazed timber door with vertical panels to left and right, flanked to right by tripartite window and to left by 2 tripartite windows, surmounted by slate canopy on decorative cast-iron brackets; irregular door and window openings to flanking bays to left and right, symmetrically placed gable with blind oeil-de-beouf opening in gablehead to left and right; round angle turret rising from square base to bays to outer left and outer right with decorative eaves cornice, fishscale roof and weathervane; inscribed plaque to outer right.

W ELEVATION: asymmetrical; single bay; window in infilled doorway to centre, surmounted by blank shield, angle turret to outer left.

S ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; irregularly placed door and window openings. Canopy no longer in place.

E ELEVATION: not seen 1998.

Predominantly timber windows with decorative geometric astragals to upper panels. Piended grey slate roof with pierced terracotta ridge. Corniced granite wallhead and ridge stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron hoppers, plastic gutters and aluminium downpipes.