Edenholme, Arduthie Road, Stonehaven

Edenholme, Arduthie Road, Stonehaven

A large villa built circa 1900, Edenholme is a 2-storey and attic building of 3 bays with later additions. The main block features a distinctive piend-and-platform swept roof, while flanking single-storey set-back wings extend to either side. The western wing has a flat roof with classical details including a Venetian window, and the eastern wing features an attic, piend roof and timpany gable with fine interior detailing.

The walls are constructed of stugged, squared and snecked coursed rubble with some Aberdeen bond, accented by an ashlar canted bay and polished stone dressings. Corniced lintels flank the centre of the main block at ground level, and projecting cills run throughout. Stone mullions and round-arched windows are characteristic features.

The principal south elevation displays a striking centrepiece: a raised doorway with a large segmental scrolled broken pediment containing a part-glazed panelled timber door flanked by decorative leaded sidelights and fanlight. To the left stands a square-plan wide-centre tripartite window with glazed returns and a parapet embrasure; to the right, a full-height polygonal-roofed canted bay with ball finial. The first floor comprises a single central window and bipartite windows to the left, with two flat-roofed bipartite windows above. The set-back western wing features a cornice and blocking course above a broad Venetian window, while a small inglenook projects into a re-entrant angle. The eastern wing displays paired single windows and a bipartite window with matching dormer windows above.

The western elevation has a low projecting canted wing with round-arched openings to its south-west and north-west faces, and a blank bay facing north over a later extension. The eastern elevation comprises a low projecting wing with a single window in a bay and two small air vents, dominated by a shouldered wallhead stack piercing the swept roof at centre. The north rear elevation includes a 20th-century flat-roofed extension at ground level, with symmetrical fenestration to the set-back main block above, including a round-arched stair window.

Windows throughout are predominantly timber small-pane upper sashes over plate glass in sash-and-case frames; the Venetian window features decoratively astragalled glazing to its centre light, while the inglenook and main door incorporate coloured leaded glass. The roof is covered in grey slate with deeply overhanging eaves and exposed rafter ends. Large, coped squared rubble wallhead stacks with cans punctuate the roofline, and the timpany gable features ashlar-coped skews with flat skewputts.

The interior contains decorative plasterwork cornices and consoles with some dado rails. A tiled vestibule with a part-glazed screen door featuring a dentilled cornice leads to the stairhall, which contains a dog-leg part-cantilevered staircase with decorative timber balusters and square newel posts. The staircase sits beneath a boarded timber ceiling, with a stair window of boarded soffit and panelled reveals. The inglenook features a compartmented ceiling, small boarded fireplace beneath a corniced mantel with decorative skirt, and flanking deep-set windows with timber-lined reveals and coloured glass. An elaborately carved timber fire surround ornaments the space.

The property is bounded to the south by low saddleback-coped rubble walls with two pairs of square-section corniced ashlar gatepiers. Semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls enclose the site elsewhere.