Aberdour House

Aberdour House is an austere mansion built in 1740, featuring three stories and seven bays. It is connected to two-storey, three-bay wings at the rear by curved single-storey quadrants, creating a U-shaped courtyard. The building is harled with tooled granite and has tooled ashlar sandstone margins and dressings.

The main front faces south and has a slightly advanced, gabled center bay topped with a finial and a pedimented entrance, which is obscured by a mid-19th century flat-roofed porch. Above the entrance, there is a corniced first-floor window with a decorative carved mock keystone on the lintel, and an octagonal blind oculus in the gablet. The windows are regularly spaced, with narrow designs that are longer on the first floor and smaller on the second floor, along with regular two-bay fenestration in the gables, some of which are blind. The glazing includes 2-, 4-, and 6-pane windows, and the roof is slate with crowstepped gables and coped end and gabled rear wallhead stacks.

The low single-storey curved quadrants each have two small windows on the southeast and southwest elevations, linking the main house to the symmetrical two-storey wings, which do not have dormers and consist of three wide bays with regular fenestration. The center door in the eastern range has been blocked and converted into a window, with the glazing primarily consisting of 4- and 12-pane designs. The wings have flat skews, end stacks, and slate roofs. A later curved single-storey lean-to corridor connects the central mansion to the outer wings at the north, although this area has been affected by a modern garage extension.

Inside, the entrance and stair hall features an original full-height staircase with turned wooden balusters and a shallow carved scroll pattern on the outer face. The ground floor includes a dining room on the east with a buffet recess, while the first floor has a drawing room. Aside from the staircase, few original features remain, though there are early 19th-century panelled doors, window shutters, and later chimneypieces.

The house is approached from the north and is separated from the former stables, dated 1795, and the steading to the west by a rubble wall that has simple square gatepiers flanking the entrance.