Hazlehurst, Ballater Road, Aboyne

Late 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay, T-plan house with stylised rugged details. Rough-faced coursed and squared and snecked pink granite finely finished to margins; rock-faced dressings. Projecting cills and lintels; long and short quoins; crowstepped gables with ball finials; eaves course.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled entrance bay to centre, decorative stop-chamfered doorway with impost detail to ground floor, stop-chamfered angle to right, panelled timber door with letterbox fanlight; single pane window with chamfered star surround set in gablehead with projecting cill below; 2-pane window to right return. Tripartite window with stepped hoodmould to ground floor of gabled bay to left; bipartite window to 1st floor; narrow round-arched blind opening set in gablehead. Bipartite window to ground floor of recessed bay to right; gabled bipartite window breaking eaves to 1st floor.

E ELEVATION: symmetrical; canted 3-bay; window to each bay of ground floor; gabled bipartite window breaking eaves to 1st floor with blind slit opening set in gablehead. Rough-faced, coped wall adjoining to outer right with bipartite window, single window and 2 modern garage doors.

N ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 2-bay; ground floor not seen 1998; bipartite window to 1st floor of gabled bay to left; single window to 1st floor of gabled bay to right.

W ELEVATION: not seen 1998.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows. Purple-grey slate roof piended to E with decorative ironwork finial; decorative pattern below ridge; lead ridges; solar panels to S. Coped rough-faced ridge stack to W, shouldered rough-faced wallhead stack to N. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

ANCILLARY STRUCTURE: single storey and attic; squared and snecked rough-faced pink granite former carriage house, converted to domestic use to N of house. E Elevation: modern glazed door to left flanked to right by window; wall adjoining to outer left (see above); skylight to centre of roof. N Elevation: window to ground and attic floors; flat roofed addition to outer right. W Elevation: not seen 1998. S Elevation: ground floor not seen 1998, boarded glazed opening to attic floor. Modern timber framed glazing; slate roof with lead ridge; coped, rough-faced wallhead stack; cast-iron rainwater goods. Interior: not seen 1998.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: 2 square-plan rough-faced granite gatepiers to SE of house with ball finials. Squared and snecked rough-faced pink granite walls to E and S with rough-faced coping.