Aberdour House

Aberdour House is a 17th-century house with an early 18th-century addition to its main front. The house has a rectangular plan, with a projecting central section, and is seven bays wide on the main front and eight bays wide at the rear. It is rendered, with long and short quoins and a moulded eaves course.

The northwest (principal) elevation is symmetrical. A projecting three-bay section features a central doorpiece with a Gibbs surround, including an architrave, imposts, a keystone, a pulvinated frieze and a pediment. A window flanks the doorpiece on either side, with first-floor and attic windows arranged above the ground-floor openings. A recessed two-bay section is on the right, with two windows spaced evenly to the ground and first floors; the ground floor window on the left and the first floor window on the right have been blocked. A similar recessed two-bay section is on the left, with two windows spaced evenly to the ground and first floors.

The northeast elevation has a first-floor window to the left and an attic window above. A date stone reading ‘1672?’ is located close to the eaves.

The southeast elevation is nearly symmetrical, featuring a six-bay section with single-bay towers to the outer bays. It has six evenly spaced openings to the ground floor, with the openings of the second and fourth bays converted into doors. First-floor windows are arranged above the ground-floor openings. Single windows are centrally placed on the ground and first floors of the towers, with blocked windows on the ground and first floors of the re-entrant angle of the towers.

The southwest elevation has an 18th-century addition to the left, featuring a central ground-floor and first-floor window. The original 17th-century house is to the right, with ground-floor windows on either side and a first-floor and attic window to the right.

A timber-panelled and glazed door provides access. The windows are predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows with horns, with 4-pane attic windows. Splayed catslide dormer windows have grey tiled cheeks; two are located on the northwest elevation, one on the northeast elevation, one on the southwest elevation and, three are evenly spaced on the southeast elevation. Modern rooflights and roof ventilators are also present. The 18th-century addition has a piended roof and a corniced ridge stack to the projecting section. The 18th-century house has two ridge stacks, and a recessed panel on the northwest face. The original 17th-century house has two crow-stepped gables with two corniced gable apex stacks and two evenly spaced corniced ridge stacks. Circular clay cans are present throughout. Piended slate roofs cover the rear towers.

The interior was modernised in the early 1990s and contains no original features.