Clashfarquhar Including Terraced Garden And Boundary Walls, Robert Street

A Marshall Mackenzie, 1903, altered and converted 1970. 3-storey with attic and basement, 3-bay, rectangular-plan hotel converted to Church of Scotland Eventide Home, with half-timbered gables on elevated site dominating the whole of Stonehaven. Squared dressed rubble and harl. Jettied 2nd floor at E and W. Stone mullions.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Centre bay at ground with modern glass canopy over door and adjacent window, 3 windows to each floor above and 2 windows to each floor of flanking bays except to attic with 5-light canted oriel windows; all attic openings abutting half-timbering in gablehead.

E (GARDEN) ELEVATION: 3 gabled bays incorporating broad canted windows to raised basement and ground floor of outer bays, modern conservatory at centre of raised basement and regular fenestration elsewhere; outer bays at attic with 4-light canted oriels.

N ELEVATION: 1970 elevator shaft at centre with gablehead behind and flanking dominant wallhead stacks.

4-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Squared rubble stacks with cans. Deeply overhanging eaves with plain bargeboards.

INTERIOR: some original detailing retained, including moulded plasterwork cornices and panelled doors. Dog-leg staircase with barley twist balusters and ball-finialled square newels. Carved timber fire surround and Red brick Claygate fireplace.

TERRACED GARDEN AND BOUNDARY WALLS: terraced garden on ground falling steeply to E with low ashlar-coped rubble boundary walls at Ann Street. Flat-coped rubble boundary walls elsewhere.