Lys Na Greyne, Rhu-Na-Haven Road, Aboyne

Lys Na Greyne, designed by George Bennett Mitchell of Aberdeen and completed in 1914, is a substantial residential house of two storeys with attic and basement levels. The building is constructed from rough-faced pink-grey granite, finely finished to its margins, with a base course and strip quoins featuring chamfered angles to the north-east elevation. The eaves are slightly overhanging.

The north-east principal elevation is asymmetrical across five bays. An entrance bay with a gable occupies the penultimate bay to the left. This entrance bay contains square-pane leaded windows, a segmental-arched doorway with keystone detail and chamfered reveal at ground floor level, and a recessed two-leaf glazed panelled timber door. A six-light window lights the first floor, and a bipartite window sits within the gablehead. Two windows occupy the ground and first floors of the right return. A recessed centre bay contains a window to the ground and first floors, with a three-light dormer at attic level. A gabled bay to the right of centre has a window off-centre to the left of the ground floor, a small window to the right, a bipartite window to the first floor, and a blind vertical opening set in the gablehead. The outer right bay has its ground floor obscured by a piend-roofed addition, but a gabled bipartite window breaks the eaves at first floor level. A single-storey bay to the outer left has a bipartite window to its centre. A boundary wall advances from the far left angle and features two panelled timber doors with decorative cast-iron upper panels.

The north-west elevation is asymmetrical across three bays. Six stone steps lead to an advanced timber porch at the centre of the ground floor, which contains a panelled timber door flanked by two glazed panels. Two windows serve the left and right returns of this bay. Steps to the right of the porch descend to a boarded timber door giving access to the basement. A window lights the basement floor of the bay to the left. Bipartite windows occupy the ground floors of the left and right bays. A gabled window breaking the eaves illuminates the centre of the first floor. A single-storey addition to the outer left contains two windows, and a short section of wall advances to the far left angle.

The south-west elevation is near-symmetrical, comprising three bays with a single bay wing to the outer left. A three-light bowed window or conservatory advanced to the centre of the ground floor is accompanied by a cast-iron balcony. A window sits off-centre to the left of the first floor, and a gabled dormer serves the attic floor above. Advanced gabled bays to the left and right each contain four-light windows to the ground and first floors, bipartite windows set within gableheads, and windows to the ground and first floors of the outer returns, with windows to the first floors of the inner returns. A chamfered angle to the outer left features windows to the ground and first floors. A gabled window breaking the eaves lights the first floor of the wing to the outer left.

The south-east elevation is asymmetrical across three bays. A gabled bay advanced to the centre contains four-light windows to the ground and first floors, with a bipartite window set in the gablehead. A tripartite window lights the ground floor of the bay to the left, while a window sits off-centre to the right of the first floor. A recessed bay to the right has a lean-to advanced to ground floor level, containing a panelled timber door flanked to the right by a window, with two windows serving the first floor. A boundary wall advances to the outer right angle.

The house is predominantly lit by two-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is piended and swept, finished in graded grey slate with lead ridges, coped stone skews, and corniced gableheads. Wallhead and ridge stacks are circular. Cast-iron rainwater goods complete the external finish.

The interior retains most of its original panelling, cornicing, doors and skirting boards.

The boundary features include coursed rough-faced gatepiers to the north-east of the house, capped with coped pyramidal tops. Variety of rough-faced boundary walls with rough-faced coping enclose the property. A walled garden to the east of the house has two panelled timber doors with decorative cast-iron upper panels to the north-west wall, and a doorway with cast-iron gate to the south-west wall. Terrace walls to the south-west and south-east of the house include a section bowed to the centre of the south-west wall, with a flight of steps leading to a lower terrace and further steps to the right of the south-east wall.