Tudor Lodge, 18 Bath Street, Stonehaven

Tudor Lodge is a Neo-Tudor villa, built in 1909 to a design by Dr William Kelly of Aberdeen. Alterations were made to the first-floor north side around the year 2000. It is a tall, two-story and attic building with three bays, notable for its corbelled and jettied mock half-timbered gableheads, a recessed gothic-arched porch, an oriel window, a corbelled stack where the first and second gables meet, and a fine interior.

The villa is constructed of stugged squared and coursed rubble with an Aberdeen bond to the sides and rear. There are some stugged and polished dressings, base and string courses, and a portion of the first floor cill course. Stone transoms and mullions are used, with chamfered arrises.

The south (principal) elevation features a central bay at ground level with a moulded arch dated 1909 on a shield at its apex, leading to a porch with flanking stone seats and a recessed doorway with a two-leaf part-glazed timber door. To the left of the doorway is a small pointed-arch light, with flanking corbel stones above giving way to a horizontal four-light window at the first floor, and a smaller window in the gablehead. A large transomed bipartite window is in the bay to the right at ground level, with a transomed five-light canted oriel window above, and a tripartite window in the gablehead. A full-height canted bay is located on the left with a transomed six-light canted window at ground level, a similar window above without transoms, and a bipartite window in the gablehead.

The east (Baird Street) elevation exhibits a variety of features including a chimney gablet, piended dormer windows, and a single-story and attic service wing at the right, with a vertically-boarded timber door and a three-pane fanlight.

The north elevation is asymmetrically-fenestrated and includes a lower wing projecting at the left, incorporating a piend roof with a small projecting gablet and an adjacent stack, and a four-light transomed window. A stepped stair window is above the door in the re-entrant angle at the left, and a piended dormer is also present.

The west elevation has a battered base to a small canted window with a slated roof, offset to the left at ground level, and a chimney gablet in the centre above.

Most windows have multi-pane leaded glazing; coloured glass is present in the stair window and two first-floor centre windows on the east elevation. The roof is covered with grey slates, with terracotta ridge tiles and finials. The coped Aberdeen bond stacks have cans. Overhanging eaves have plain bargeboards.

The interior retains a fine decorative scheme, including decorative plasterwork ceilings and cornicing, timber fire surrounds with panelled, shelved, and glazed overmantels, and architraved panelled timber doors. A dog-leg staircase has decorative timber balusters and square newel posts, leading to a landing with a pointed arch opening. A winding staircase with cast-iron barleytwist balusters leads to a maid’s bedroom, containing a fireplace with a cast-iron canopy and grate. Original patent window opening mechanisms are in place. Some original wallpaper remains.

Low ashlar-coped boundary walls are located to the south; higher coped rubble walls are found elsewhere.