Invercowie House, Barclay Street, Stonehaven

Invercowie House is a house dating to before 1804, likely incorporating fabric from the 18th century, and has undergone alterations. The main part of the house is a 2-storey and attic property, with a raised basement, and has a symmetrical, rectangular plan, three bays wide. It features two shallow-bowed bays flanking an oversailing stair leading to an arched doorway, and a single-storey wing set at right angles to the street within a large walled garden. The exterior is harled with ashlar margins, incorporating an eaves cornice and stone mullions.

The south (principal) elevation features a central bay at ground level with stairs and ironwork railings leading to a 4-panelled timber door with a sunburst astragalled fanlight, a single window at the first floor, and a small semicircular-pedimented dormer window above. A deeper set door is located at basement level, opposite a rubble and brick vaulted cellar beneath the oversailing stair, potentially accessing earlier fabric. Flanking bays each incorporate a full-height (including basement) bowed bay containing a wide tripartite window, topped by smaller, conically-roofed, bowed tripartite dormers. A recessed lower wing (Plas Newyd) adjoins to the right, with a further wall abutting the left side.

The north elevation is asymmetrically fenestrated, featuring a vertically-boarded timber door and decoratively astragalled fanlight to the centre bay at ground level, with a later piended outshot above. A lower wing is positioned at the outer left. The east (Barclay Street) elevation is a low gabled section with a deep-set bowed tripartite window at centre, and a taller blank gable of the main house behind.

Original and restored timber sash and case windows retain a multi-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with grey slates, and prominent harled gablehead stacks are topped with polygonal cans and ashlar-coped straight skews.

The interior retains a fine decorative scheme, including decorative and plain moulded plasterwork cornicing, fluted clustered column mullions, and a dog-leg staircase with turned timber balusters. The drawing room features a carved timber fire surround incorporating classical detailing and delicately carved urns, swags and paterae to the overmantel with a decorative iron grate. An ornate cast-iron Baroque fireplace with a timber surround is in an attic bedroom, and further timber fire surrounds with fluted detailing and horseshoe grates are present. The bathroom is timber-lined.

A coped rubble garden wall contains a two-leaf wrought-iron gate. An ancillary building, a piend-roofed former stable, is harled, and features a vertically-boarded timber door and an early lock. The interior is timber-lined, with a polygonal pier and evidence of former loose boxes.