Clashfarquhar Including Terraced Garden And Boundary Walls, Robert Street

Clashfarquhar, located on Robert Street, is a hotel designed by A Marshall Mackenzie in 1903, which was altered and converted in 1970 into a Church of Scotland Eventide Home. This three-storey building with an attic and basement has a rectangular plan and features three bays. It is situated on an elevated site that offers a commanding view over Stonehaven. The exterior is finished with squared dressed rubble and harl, and includes jettied second floors on the east and west sides, as well as stone mullions.

The west elevation, which serves as the entrance, is symmetrical. It has a central bay on the ground floor with a modern glass canopy over the door and an adjacent window. Above, there are three windows on each floor, with two windows in each of the flanking bays, except for the attic, which features five-light canted oriel windows that abut the half-timbering in the gable head.

The east elevation, facing the garden, consists of three gabled bays that incorporate broad canted windows on the raised basement and ground floor of the outer bays. There is a modern conservatory at the center of the raised basement, with regular fenestration elsewhere. The outer bays at the attic also have four-light canted oriels.

On the north elevation, a 1970 elevator shaft is located at the center, flanked by dominant wallhead stacks and a gablehead behind.

The building features 4-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows, topped with grey slates. The squared rubble stacks have cans, and the deeply overhanging eaves are complemented by plain bargeboards.

Inside, some original details have been preserved, including moulded plasterwork cornices and panelled doors. The dog-leg staircase is adorned with barley twist balusters and ball-finialled square newels. There is also a carved timber fire surround and a Red brick Claygate fireplace.

The terraced garden slopes steeply to the east and is bordered by low ashlar-coped rubble boundary walls along Ann Street, while flat-coped rubble boundary walls are found elsewhere.