Maud Auction Mart, Station Road, New Deer

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIER: semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls and pyramidally-coped square-section gatepier.1894 and 1901, altered 1996. Tall single storey, 6-bay, M-gabled former auction mart with bellcote converted to joinery workshop. Roughly squared and snecked rubble to N gable, squared black rubble to S gable, some Aberdeen bond and stugged dressings.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: gable of darker stone to left of centre with part-glazed timber door to centre and flanking windows (converted from doors) at ground, and widely-spaced raised-centre tripartite window in gablehead giving way to pedimented bellcote with bell. Right gable mirrors the above but with ball finial at gablehead.

S ELEVATION: timber-slatted opening close to eaves at right of centre, and later corrugated-iron lean-to at left. Full-width traditional vertically-astragalled rooflight. Further gabled range projecting at outer left.

N ELEVATION: blank elevation with blocked opening to outer left, 2 full-width traditional rooflights, and door on return to right. Lower set-back bay to right with full-width timber door, and further gabled range projecting at outer right.

W ELEVATION: altered 3-gabled rear elevation.

4-pane glazing pattern in replacement timber sash and case windows. Grey slate (except to N pitch of S gable) and stone ridge. Ashlar-coped skews with kneelers and moulded skewputts. Stone gablehead finials.

INTERIOR: some ironwork columns on concrete walls retained (pen divisions?); boarded roof with ironwork trusses and rooflights.