The Granary, 10 Shorehead, Stonehaven

The Granary at 10 Shorehead in Stonehaven is an early 19th-century building that has been converted into a dwelling, with a new roof installed between 1976 and 1978. It is a four-storey, four-bay rectangular-plan former granary, constructed with harled walls, snecked, roughly coursed rubble, and squared rubble dressings at the rear.

On the east elevation, the penultimate bay to the right features a broad recessed entrance bay with multi-pane tripartite windows and a panelled timber door on the return to the right. There is a full-height window at the outer right that has been converted from a door, and four regularly spaced windows to the left, along with a modern small horizontal bipartite window at the outer left. The first, second, and third floors at the outer right have tall windows in former loading door openings, with the third-floor window breaking the eaves into a projecting piended hoist canopy. The remaining bays have regular fenestration, except for the first floor outer left, which has a large plate glass opening to a former loading door, and the third-floor windows that break the eaves into piended dormerheads. There is a flat-roofed garage extension adjoining at the outer left.

The south elevation has a gabled section raised from a piend to incorporate a gablehead stack. It features a flat-roofed garage at ground level, with windows to the outer left and right on each floor above, except for the first floor on the left, which has a glazed door, and two further small openings in the centre at the second and third floors.

The west (rear) elevation displays largely symmetrical fenestration with small openings above ground. The building has modern, predominantly 12-pane glazing in pivoting windows and is roofed with grey slates. The gablehead stack is coped with cans, and the skews are ashlar-coped with block skewputts.

Inside, the third floor retains a hemel sack hoist on the east side. The roof from the 1970s features intricately engineered timbering to support the wide span. There is also a timber-balustered staircase.