Textile Yard, Keith Place, Stonehaven

The Textile Yard at Keith Place in Stonehaven is a 17th-century building that has been converted to residential use and extended in the early 21st century. It is a single-storey structure with an attic over a raised basement, featuring six bays and originally serving as a low warehouse overlooking the shore. The exterior is constructed from snecked, roughly coursed rubble with squared rubble dressings, and the first-floor openings on the southeast side have roll-moulded surrounds, although they are badly weathered. The southwest gable is harled, and the building has crowsteps.

On the southeast elevation, the basement level has five louvered openings grouped toward the center, along with a further blocked opening at the outer left. The principal floor features five irregularly-disposed and irregularly-sized windows, with the window to the right of center altered from a door, and a blocked window in the penultimate bay to the left. There are also two tiny glazed attic openings near the eaves.

The southwest elevation has a harled gabled façade with a single window, which may have been reopened, located to the right at ground level. The northeast elevation is blank with evidence of a blocked window at ground left and a splayed angle mitred to square over the basement at the outer left. An early 21st-century entrance bay projects at the outer right.

On the northwest (courtyard) elevation, there is a large modern lean-to porch at the outer right, with a small window at the center of the basement. There is a window on each floor at the outer left, both converted from doors, and a hayloft opening to the right. The windows feature 4- and 8-pane glazing patterns in timber sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slates and includes tiny ridge ventilators. There is a broad gablehead stack on the southwest and a smaller gablehead stack on the northeast, both coped and fitted with cans. The southwest side has crowstepped skews, with a grotesque head skewputt on the right and a beaked skewputt on the left, while the northeast has straight coped ashlar skews with block skewputts.

Inside, the interior is modern, featuring some paired timber lintels.

Additionally, there is a 17th-century high, curved sea wall to the north, made of coursed squared rubble at the base, topped with snecked squared rubble and boulder rubble courses. The northeast angle includes a modern viewing platform and sunroom that project above and behind the wall.