Invercowie House, Barclay Street, Stonehaven

Before 1804, probably incorporating 18th century fabric, altered. 2-storey with attic and raised basement, 3-bay, symmetrical, rectangular-plan house with 2 shallow-bowed bays flanking oversailing stair leading to arched doorway, and single storey wing, set at right angles to street within large walled garden. Harled with ashlar margins. Eaves cornice. Stone mullions.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: centre bay at ground with stairs and flanking ironwork railings leading to 4-panelled timber door with sunburst-astragalled fanlight, single window at 1st floor and small semicircular-pedimented dormer window above, further deep-set door at basement level opposite rubble and brick vaulted cellar under oversailing stair, possibly with stair down to earlier fabric. Flanking bays each with full-height (including basement) bowed bay incorporating wide tripartite window, slightly smaller, conically-roofed, bowed tripartite dormers above. Recessed lower wing (Plas Newyd) adjoining at right, and further wall abutting at left.

N ELEVATION: asymmetrically-fenestrated elevation incorporating vertically-boarded timber door and decoratively-astragalled fanlight to centre bay at ground with later piended outshot above. Lower wing at outer left.

E (BARCLAY STREET) ELEVATION: low gabled elevation with deep-set bowed tripartite window at centre, and taller blank gable of house behind.

Multi-pane glazing pattern to original and restored timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Dominant harled gablehead stacks with polygonal cans; ashlar-coped straight skews.

INTERIOR: fine decorative scheme in place including decorative and plain moulded plasterwork cornicing; fluted clustered column mullions; dog-leg staircase with turned timber balusters. Drawing room with carved timber fire surround incorporating classical detailing and delicately carved urn, swags and paterae to overmantel with decorative iron grate; ornate cast-iron Baroque fireplace with timber surround to attic bedroom; further timber fire surrounds with fluted detailing and horseshoe grates. Bathroom timber-lined.

GARDEN WALL AND GATE: coped rubble garden walls with 2-leaf wrought-iron gate.

ANCILLARY BUILDING: piend-roofed, harled former stable. Vertically-boarded timber door and early lock. Interior timber-lined with polygonal pier and evidence of former loose boxes.