Huntly Arms Hotel, Charlestown Road, Aboyne

The Huntly Arms Hotel is an earlier 19th-century coaching inn, now operating as a hotel, located on Charlestown Road, Aboyne. The building has a complex, irregular plan with later additions and alterations. It is constructed from squared and coursed granite with finely finished dressings, featuring gableted dormers.

The south-west (entrance) elevation is asymmetrical, originally comprising a 5-bay, 2-storey block to which mid-19th century wings have been added to form a Z-plan. A central, gabled entrance bay projects forward, featuring a round-arched doorway with stone pilasters, a timber door, and a painted crest within the tympanum. A window is positioned centrally on the first floor. The ground floor of the flanking bays to the right features windows. A canopy obscures the two flanking bays to the left. Regular fenestration is present on the flanking bays to the left and right of the first and attic floors. A gabled wing projects to the right, with an advanced, rectangular tripartite window extending through both the ground and first floors. A separate gabled bay to the outer left incorporates a canted window on the first floor. A late 19th-century, 3-storey, symmetrical, crenellated addition joins the building to the outer right, with a central doorway flanked by 4-light canted windows to the left and right. Regularly placed bipartite windows are found on the first and second floors, and the centre of the rear gable has a crowstepped gable incorporating a stack at the gablehead.

The south-east elevation features a mid-19th-century addition to the left, which is flanked to the right by a 20th-century addition. A single-storey and attic, 6-bay, 19th-century block is located to the outer right, displaying altered openings to the five bays to the left and a gabled bay on the right which is currently undergoing renovation.

The north-east elevation consists of a single-storey block currently under renovation.

The north-west elevation is asymmetrical, with a mid-19th-century, 5-bay granite wing to the right. Regular fenestration is present on the ground, first, and attic floors of the 3 bays to the right. A panelled timber door is found in the penultimate bay to the left of the ground floor, flanked to the left by an infilled round-archway containing a window. Gabled windows are present on the first floor. A 2-storey, 7-bay harled addition is located to the left, featuring a glazed timber door in the third bay from the right of the ground floor, a doorway in the penultimate bay to the left, and irregular fenestration to the remaining ground floor bays. Gabled windows break the eaves on the first floor. Timber sash and case windows are found throughout, with a variety of glazing patterns. The roof is covered with grey slate, with stone and lead ridge details. Coped ridge stacks and a corniced ridge stack are present on the entrance bay, along with octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are also in place.

The interior of the building was not inspected in 1998.