Woodend, Ballater Road, Aboyne

Woodend is a former lodge to Aboyne Castle, dating from the mid-19th century. It is a single-storey building with an attic and a rectangular plan, featuring three bays. The exterior is made of rough-faced, squared coursed grey granite with finely finished margins. Notable architectural details include a base course, chamfered reveals, and long and short vertically banded quoins. The eaves overhang and are adorned with timber bargeboards and kingpost details.

The southwest elevation is asymmetrical, with a gableted porch that projects from the center of the ground floor. This porch features a glazed and panel timber door accessed by a single step, and above it is a tooled panel displaying the letter "H" surmounted by a crown in the gablehead. To the right, there is a 2-light window and a canted window on the ground floor. The attic has a 2-pane skylight at the center, a gableted window breaking the eaves to the right, and a 2-light window set in the gablehead of the left bay.

The southeast elevation is near-symmetrical, with a shouldered advanced flue at the center of the wall that has a tooled panel reading "BYDAND." There is a lean-to addition adjoining the boundary wall on the outer right.

The northeast elevation's ground floor was not visible in 1998, but there is a window set in the gablehead of the right bay.

The northwest elevation is asymmetrical, featuring a shouldered advanced flue at the center that breaks the eaves. There is a 2-light window on the ground floor and a recessed tooled panel with a shield surmounted by a crown above it. A small-pane timber door is located in the flanking bay to the left, and there is a single-storey, flat-roofed addition on the outer left with two small windows.

The building predominantly features 2 and 3-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a lead ridge. There is a coped, paired circular-plan gablehead stack on the southeast and a coped, shouldered granite triple wallhead stack on the northwest. The rainwater goods are made of cast iron.

The interior was not seen in 1999. The boundary walls surrounding the lodge are made of squared and snecked rough-faced granite with rough-faced coping on the southeast side.