Rhu-Na-Haven Cottage (Former Staff Quarters), Rhu-Na-Haven, Aboyne

WALLED GARDEN AND POTTING SHED: (at NO 51511 97718) Sir Robert Lorimer, circa 1911. Rectangular-plan walled garden. Random granite rubble with rough-faced coping. Gateway to centre of W wall with long and short dressings, walls swept down to right and left; decorative ironwork gate with maple leaf motifs. Piend-roofed potting shed to centre of E wall, gableted bay to centre with round-arched opening and blank panel set in gablehead; boarded timber doors and vertical-paned window to exterior elevation; small stack breaking pitch to N. Part-gabled glass houses flanking potting shed to left and right, on red brick bases. Boarded timber door, flanked by glass house to right of N wall. RHU-NA-HAVEN COTTAGE: Sir Robert Lorimer, circa 1911. Single storey and attic, former staff quarters. Coursed, tooled pink-grey granite finely finished to margins. Projecting cills; rounded reveals; long and short dressings and quoins; overhanging eaves. W ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 3-bay; lean-to canopy over bay to centre, wide boarded timber door with glazed panels, rectangular dormer to attic floor above; flat roofed addition advanced to flanking bay to right with stepped parapet, 3-leaf boarded timber door with glazed panels to left return; gabled bay advanced to flanking bay to left, window off-centre to right of ground floor, centred tripartite window to attic floor. S ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 2-leaf boarded timber door flanked to left and right by window, boarded timber door to outer right of ground floor; flatroofed addition to outer left, blank. Rectangular dormer to centre of attic floor. E ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 4-bay; lean-to addition obscuring centre and right bays of ground floor, opening to left, boarded timber door to right return; boarded timber door flanked to left by 2-pane window to left bay of ground floor; piend-roofed boarded timber door with glazed panels breaking eaves to centre of attic floor. Recessed bay to outer right, flat-roofed addition advanced to ground floor with lean-to to end, wallhead stack to SE angle, boarded timber door to left return, irregular fenestration to right return; bipartite window to attic floor above. N ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; 3-bay; bowed bay advanced to centre, window to 1st floor, 2-pane window to right return, boarded timber door with decorative glazed panels to left return, ogee roof; flanking bay to right blank; tripartite window to ground floor of flanking bay to left. Predominantly 6-pane timber casement windows. Replacement concrete roof tiles to piended roof. Coped granite stacks breaking pitch, with circular cans; small iron ventilator to S ridge. Cast-iron rainwater goods. INTERIOR: not seen 1999.