6 Hill Street, Portsoy

Mid 18th century. 2-storey and dormerless attic, 3-bay house, with gable end to Hill Street and S facing front elevation to public footpath. Red harled incorporating local red 'serpentine' aggregate, painted ashlar margins and dressings. Centre entrance with double leaf panelled door and letterbox fanlight. 12-pane glazing in timber sash windows. Rear elevation with original centre ground and 1st floor windows; 2 additional ground floor windows, centre with modern glazing; otherwise 9- and 12-pane glazing in sash windows. Off-centre rear wallhead stack. End ashlar margined harled chimney stacks with moulded corniced copes; flat skews with shaped run-off skewputts; slate roof; sandstone ridge. Later long single storey service wing with single pitch slated roof abutting W gable, incorporating perimeter walls and extending beyond house both back and front; also red harled.

INTERIOR: ground floor in poor state; some long term restoration in progress. Plain staircase; 1st floor parlour SE; simple moulded plaster ceiling cornice, raised and fielded 6-panel doors; round-headed mural cupboard with carved 'keystone' and panelled doors flanked

by fluted pilasters. Simple painted wooden chimneypiece decorated with delicate swags and flowers. Panelled doors also in SW 1st floor room.

GARDEN WALLS: small front garden enclosed by low front wall; pedestrian entrance with cast-iron spearhead gate. High rubble wall enclosures remainder of front garden and raised around extensive rear plot.

FORMER GIG-HOUSE: small rectangular outbuilding, gable end to Hill Street with wide round-headed entrance closed by double-leaf plank doors. Harled rubble, pantile roof.