West Lodge, Aboyne Castle

West Lodge at Aboyne Castle, designed by George Truefitt in the later 19th century, is a single-storey and attic lodge with a square plan and an L-plan single-storey wing. The building is constructed from rounded granite rubble with rough-faced long and short dressings, featuring a rough-faced dividing band course. It has a finely finished granite eaves course and a rope-moulded eaves course at the angle turret.

The west elevation is asymmetrical, showcasing a triangular-plan oriel on a decorative oversized bracket at the center of the ground floor, while a corbelled turret at the outer left angle includes a single window in the attic. The south elevation is also asymmetrical with two bays; the left bay has a bipartite window for both the ground and attic floors, and the right bay's ground floor is obscured by the three-bay single-storey wing. The outer right bay is advanced and features a three-light window, with a three-light window in the flanking bay to the left and a tripartite window in the left bay.

The east elevation is asymmetrical with two bays; the outer left angle is obscured by the single-storey wing, which has a two-light window to the right and a glazed timber door to the right return, accessed by three stone steps flanked by ball-finials. The main block has two windows on the ground floor, a bipartite wallhead stack at the center of the attic floor, and is flanked by a single dormer window to the right and a bipartite dormer window to the left, both with piend roofs that break the eaves. The north elevation is asymmetrical as well, featuring a bipartite window at the center of the ground floor and a corbelled turret at the outer right angle.

The lodge predominantly has six-pane timber casement windows and piended graded grey slate roofs with lead flashings. Coped granite rough-faced wallhead stacks on the south and east sides have circular cans, and the building is equipped with cast-iron rainwater goods.

The gates, gatepiers, and boundary walls include coped, square-plan granite gatepiers to the north of the lodge with pyramidal caps and decorative ironwork gates. There are rough-faced granite gatepiers and a single-leaf gate to the northwest leading to the Garden House. Coped rough-faced quadrant walls topped with ironwork railings extend to the north and south, while rounded granite rubble walls also extend in those directions.