Johnston Lodge, 26 Ann Street, Stonehaven

Johnston Lodge, located at 26 Ann Street in Stonehaven, dates back to around 1800. This two-storey and attic house, which may have been raised from a single storey, originally formed part of a terraced pair. It features a corniced and columned doorpiece and a Venetian window. The exterior is constructed from squared rubble, which includes granite and sandstone, with coursed rubble and harl; the dressings are made of cement-rendered concrete. The ground floor windows are architraved, and there are mullions along with some stop-chamfered arrises.

On the principal elevation, the door with the columned doorpiece is located to the left of the centre, flanked by large tripartite windows in the adjacent bays. There is another door in the right bay, with an additional tripartite window beyond it. The first floor has five single windows, and there are three dormers above; the right dormer is canted, while those on the left and centre are piended.

The rear elevation has three bays to the right, featuring a Venetian stair window at the centre, flanked by altered openings on the ground floor and two windows on the first floor. There is an outshot bay to the left centre with a tall stair window, an altered bay to the left in the re-entrant angle at ground level, and a single window above.

The windows have been replaced with plate glass glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped squared rubble ridge stacks topped with a full complement of polygonal cans and thackstanes, along with ashlar-coped skews.

Inside, the interior is mostly modernized but retains a timber staircase, panelled reveals in the dining room, and coloured margins around the Venetian stair window.