Hazlehurst, Ballater Road, Aboyne

Hazlehurst is a late 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay, T-plan house situated on Ballater Road, Aboyne. The house exhibits stylised rugged architectural details. It is constructed with rough-faced, coursed, squared and snecked pink granite, finely finished to the margins, with rock-faced dressings. The design features projecting cills and lintels, long and short quoins, crowstepped gables with ball finials, and an eaves course.

The south elevation is asymmetrical. A gabled entrance bay is centrally positioned, featuring a decorative, stop-chamfered doorway with impost detail to the ground floor, a stop-chamfered angle to the right, and a panelled timber door with a letterbox fanlight. A single-pane window with a chamfered star surround is set into the gablehead, with a projecting cill below, and a two-pane window is located to the right return. To the ground floor of the gabled bay to the left is a tripartite window with a stepped hoodmould, above which is a bipartite window to the first floor. A narrow, round-arched blind opening is set into the gablehead. A bipartite window is on the ground floor of the recessed bay to the right, with a gabled bipartite window breaking the eaves to the first floor.

The east elevation is symmetrical, with a three-bay canted design. Each bay on the ground floor has a window, and a gabled bipartite window breaks the eaves to the first floor, with a blind slit opening set in the gablehead. A rough-faced, coped wall adjoins the exterior to the right, with a bipartite window, a single window, and two modern garage doors.

The north elevation is asymmetrical, with two bays. The ground floor was not visible in 1998. A bipartite window is on the first floor of the gabled bay to the left, and a single window is on the first floor of the gabled bay to the right. The west elevation was also not visible in 1998.

The windows are predominantly two-pane timber sash and case. The roof is purple-grey slate, piended to the east with a decorative ironwork finial and decorative pattern below the ridge, with lead ridges and solar panels to the south. A coped, rough-faced ridge stack is located to the west, and a shouldered rough-faced wallhead stack is to the north. Cast-iron rainwater goods are present. The interior was not inspected in 1998.

To the north of the house is a single-storey and attic former carriage house, which has been converted to domestic use. It is constructed from squared and snecked rough-faced pink granite. The east elevation has a modern glazed door to the left, flanked to the right by a window, and a wall adjoining the exterior to the left. A skylight is centrally located on the roof. The north elevation features a window to both the ground and attic floors, with a flat-roofed addition to the outer right. The west elevation was not visible in 1998. The south elevation’s ground floor was not seen in 1998, but there is a boarded glazed opening to the attic floor. The carriage house has modern timber framed glazing, a slate roof with a lead ridge, a coped, rough-faced wallhead stack, and cast-iron rainwater goods. The interior was not inspected in 1998.

Two square-plan, rough-faced granite gatepiers with ball finials are located to the southeast of the house. Squared and snecked rough-faced pink granite walls with rough-faced coping run along the east and south boundaries.