Ladywood Lodge, Rhu-Na-Haven Road, Aboyne

Dated 1904. 2-storey, 3-bay, L-plan, half-timbered house. Tooled granite ground floor to NW, NE and SE. Base course; veranda canopy between ground and 1st floors; overhanging eaves; timber bargeboards.

SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3-bay, symmetrical; 9-light canted window through ground and 1st floors of centre bay; 9-light canted windows to left and right bays of ground floor; 3-light windows to left and right bays of 1st floor.

SE ELEVATION: predominantly obscured by trees; glazed panelled door to centre of ground floor surmounted by tooled panel reading "JCB 1904"; covered walkway advanced to centre supported on rusticated wooden columns.

NE ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 3-bay; tooled granite to ground floor; 2 bays to right advanced; irregular fenestration.

NW ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 4-bay; tooled granite ground floor; 2 gabled bays to right, ground floor obscured by advanced single storey addition, 3 window, flanked to left by wide glazed boarded timber door in lean-to, 2-leaf glazed panelled timber door advanced to centre of right return flanked bay glazed boarded timber door to left and 2 2-light windows to right; glazed boarded timber door to left return; irregular fenestration to 1st floor; glazed boarded timber door to penultimate bay to left of ground floor, flanked to left and right by 2-light windows; 2-light window and large pane window to 1st floor.

Predominantly 2-pane timber sash and case windows with square-leaded upper panes. Rosemary-tiled roof with decorative terracotta ridge. Corniced granite gablehead and ridge stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

ANCILLARY STRUCTURE: single storey and attic motor or carriage house; tooled granite with boarded timber SE Elevation; irregular boarded timber doors and timber windows; dormer window to centre of rosemary-tiled roof with decorative terracotta ridge; coped granite stack to rear with circular cans.