Old Tolbooth, Old Pier, Stonehaven

The Old Tolbooth in Stonehaven is a late 16th-century building with a north wing added in the 17th century and restored in 1963. It is a two-storey, L-plan structure featuring crowstepped gables, constructed from local sandstone and conglomerate rubble, with some polished ashlar dressings and chamfered openings. The doors and reveals are finished with vertical boarding.

On the south elevation, there is a door to the left of centre at ground level, along with a two-leaf door in a later broad opening to the right. The first floor has a wide loading door, now glazed and fitted with a modern iron balustrade, to the right of centre, three blocked slits, and two windows to the left, with an additional window on the outer right.

The west elevation has three bays, including a gabled bay on the right. A forestair rises from the outer right to a recessed door at the centre of the first floor, with a window to the right. There is a later broad opening with a two-leaf door in the centre at ground level and another pedestrian door immediately to the left, with two windows on the first floor flanking a prominent wallhead stack.

The east elevation features a gabled design with a curved wall at the left angle, a window on the first floor to the left, a small blind opening to the right, and another window in the gablehead.

The north (rear) elevation is asymmetrically fenestrated, with an advanced crowstepped gable on the outer right. The building predominantly has 12-pane glazing in replacement timber sash and case windows, with graded grey slates on the roof. There is a small rooflight at the rear, and the roof features coped ashlar wallhead and gablehead stacks, along with ashlar-coped crowsteps with beak skewputts.

The boundary walls and gates consist of flat-coped, coursed rubble, forming a semicircular-plan wall that creates a courtyard on the east side, with a two-leaf iron grid-pattern vehicular gate set into the wall.

Inside, the building has been largely altered, but the ground floor of the north wing retains rubble and flagstone floors. There is a curved recess to the west of the south wing, which likely housed a free-standing stove.