Ancillary Building, Scotston

Scotston is a house built in the earlier to mid 19th century, featuring two storeys and an L-shaped plan with gabled roofs and Tudor architectural details. The exterior is constructed from Aberdeen bond squared rubble with droved ashlar dressings and includes a deep base course. The entrance has a roll-moulded, Tudor-arched doorpiece with blind-traceried spandrels. Windows are made with stone mullions, chamfered reveals, and raked cills.

On the southwest elevation, there is an advanced gabled bay to the right of the centre, which has bipartite windows on both floors. The central bay features a stone porch in the re-entrant angle with steps leading up to a part-glazed timber door, a 2-pane fanlight, and a moulded string course that transitions into a stepped blocking course with a blind shield and flat roof. Above, a bipartite window breaks the eaves at the first floor. The left bay also has bipartite windows on both floors, with the first-floor window extending into a pedimented dormerhead.

The southeast elevation mirrors this with a bipartite window on each floor in a slightly advanced gabled bay on the right and a similarly-fenestrated bay on the left, both featuring first-floor windows that break the eaves into pedimented dormerheads.

On the northeast elevation, there is a gabled bay at the centre with a bipartite stair window to the right and a narrow light to the left. To the left is a blank bay, while a single-storey bay projects to the right, featuring a timber door and a plate glass fanlight in the re-entrant angle, alongside an adjoining ancillary building.

The northwest elevation has a tall gabled bay to the right with bipartite windows on both floors, while a set-back bay to the left includes a small window on the left and a window slapping to the right. An adjoining gabled ancillary building is located at the outer left.

The windows throughout the house feature horizontal glazing patterns of 4, 6, and 8 panes, with plate glass glazing in timber sash and case frames, except for the window slapping on the northwest side. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, featuring gablet coped ashlar skews and moulded skewputts.

There are also two slate-roofed, rectangular-plan, gabled ancillary buildings with gablet coped ashlar skews and boarded timber doors, one of which adjoins the house and includes a garage door on the southeast side.