Langdon, Evan Street, Stonehaven

The house at Langdon, Stonehaven, dates to circa 1890 and is a late plain classical mansion of two storeys and an attic, with a single-storey and attic service wing. It is constructed of stugged ashlar. The main elevation features a band course, a main entablature with a plain frieze that slightly projects, a low parapet two courses deep with ball-finialled angles, and an eaves course. A stone porch has a consoled canopy and finialled angles.

The east (entrance) elevation has a bay to the right of centre which incorporates the porch, featuring a panelled timber door, a plate glass fanlight, and single windows to each return. Above the door, there is a window with a raised parapet and a small piended dormer behind. A smaller window is immediately to the left at ground level, and a full-height raised chimney breast extends beyond, with the main cornice projecting forward. Further windows are located at each floor at the outer left and right.

The south (garden) elevation has a slightly advanced bay to the right with a canted window at ground level and a single window above. To the left are two windows with centrally positioned single windows above.

The west elevation presents a variety of architectural elements, including a canted projection at ground level to the right, an inglenook fireplace, a large central stair window, and a polygonal-roofed canted window to the left at ground level.

The rear (north) elevation has a projecting service wing to the right.

The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates and the building has coped ashlar wallhead stacks with some cans.

The interior retains a good decorative scheme, including decorative plasterwork cornicing and consoled arches. There are fine architraved six- and nine-panelled timber doors with brass furniture, dado and picture rails, timber shutters, and parquet flooring. The front hall has an encaustic-tiled floor and a part-glazed screen door. The dining room has a carved archway leading to a later, small red brick fireplace incorporated into an inglenook. A timber dog-leg staircase has turned balusters and finialled newel posts. A first-floor room contains a marble fireplace.

An ancillary building, rectangular in plan and with a piend roof, is constructed of slated ashlar and has boarded timber doors. It is located to the northwest.

The property is enclosed by semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls with coped, square-section ashlar gatepiers.