St Lesmo Tower, St Eunan's Road, Aboyne is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 2000. House. 1 related planning application.
St Lesmo Tower, St Eunan's Road, Aboyne
- WRENN ID
- gilded-stronghold-lark
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 2000
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Lesmo Tower is a later 19th century, two-storey, four-bay house designed in an L-shape, featuring a corner tower and decorative bargeboards. The building is constructed from tooled coursed granite with stugged dressings, and it has a timber eaves course along with pierced bargeboards.
The south elevation is asymmetrical, with an architraved doorway located in the penultimate bay to the right. This doorway has a panelled timber door flanked by timber pilasters and leaded glass panels, topped by a stained glass fanlight that reads "St. Lesmo Tower." There are three stone steps leading up to the door. The outer right bay has a canted three-light window with a battered base on the ground floor, while the penultimate bay to the left contains a window. On the first floor, there is a bipartite window set in the gable of the outer right bay, as well as windows in the gables of both the penultimate bays to the right and left. The octagonal tower on the outer left bay features five windows on both the ground and first floors, topped with a spire and a cast-iron weathervane.
The east elevation is also asymmetrical, comprising a single bay with a two-bay addition to the right. There is an off-centre window to the right on both the ground and first floors, while the addition has regular fenestration on both levels.
The north elevation is asymmetrical and consists of two bays, with the left bay obscured by an addition. It features three boarded timber doors on the ground floor, two of which have glazed panels. There is a boarded timber door on the ground floor of the right return, along with a window at the centre of the first floor and a bipartite window in the right bay on the first floor.
The west elevation is asymmetrical and has a single bay with an off-centre window to the left on both the ground and first floors, along with the tower on the outer left.
The windows are predominantly small-pane upper sashes with plate glass lower sashes. The roof is covered with graded purple-grey slate and features a lead ridge. There are corniced gablehead stacks and a coped wallhead stack with circular cans, as well as cast-iron rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen in 1998.
The property is enclosed by a rubble boundary wall to the south and east, topped with rubble coping. At the centre of the south wall, there are stugged, square-plan granite gatepiers with corniced necks and square caps. The walls sweep down to a broad opening to the left of the west wall.
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