Maud Auction Mart, Station Road, New Deer

Maud Auction Mart, located on Station Road in New Deer, is a former auction mart built in 1894 and 1901, which has been altered in 1996 and is now used as a joinery workshop. The building features tall single-storey construction with six bays and an M-gabled roof, complemented by a bellcote. The exterior is made of roughly squared and snecked rubble on the north gable, with squared black rubble on the south gable, incorporating some Aberdeen bond and stugged dressings.

The principal elevation faces east and has a gable of darker stone to the left of center. It includes a part-glazed timber door in the center, flanked by windows that were converted from doors at ground level. Above, there is a widely spaced raised-center tripartite window in the gablehead, leading to a pedimented bellcote that houses a bell. The right gable mirrors this design but features a ball finial at the gablehead.

On the south elevation, there is a timber-slatted opening close to the eaves on the right of center, along with a later corrugated-iron lean-to on the left. The roof has a full-width traditional vertically-astragalled rooflight, and there is a further gabled range projecting from the outer left.

The north elevation is mostly blank, with a blocked opening on the outer left, two full-width traditional rooflights, and a door on the return to the right. There is a lower set-back bay to the right with a full-width timber door, and another gabled range projecting from the outer right.

The west elevation has been altered and features three gables. The building has replacement timber sash and case windows with a 4-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered in grey slate, except for the north pitch of the south gable, and has stone ridges. The skews are ashlar-coped with kneelers and moulded skewputts, and there are stone gablehead finials.

Inside, some ironwork columns are retained on concrete walls, possibly for pen divisions. The roof is boarded with ironwork trusses and includes rooflights.