Fordoun Schoolhouse, Auchenblae

Probably 1850, 2-storey with upper breaking eaves, 3-bay, Tudor style L-plan villa with circa 2002 2-storey, rectangular-plan wing to rear in similar style by George Douglas, Aberdeen; set within private garden ground. Cherry-caulked red sandstone with tooled ashlar quoins and tabbed window margins, harled to rear. Base course; shouldered gablet dormerheads and gables with angled skews and skewputts; chamfered arrises. Central door with plain fanlight.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: S (principal) elevation with slightly advanced gable to right; arrowslit to gable apex. E elevation with slightly advanced gable to left; carved finials to original dormerheads. W elevation with later window at ground floor of gable to right.

Predominantly replacement 8-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Replacement panelled timber door. Pitched roof, grey slates. Coped and shouldered ashlar wallhead stacks with circular clay cans. Later aluminium rainwater goods.

INTERIOR (seen 2012): principal rooms flanking a central hall and timber dog-leg staircase; some later interior remodelling. Moulded cornice to entrance hall, reinstated moulded cornice to principal rooms. Working window shutters. Predominantly panelled timber doors.

GATERPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: rubble boundary walls with semicircular rubble copes. Square ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps.