Stable Court, Dunbeath Castle

The Stable Court, situated at Dunbeath Castle, is a late 19th and early 20th century stable block designed by John Bryce. It is a two-storey, U-plan range, opening onto a walled courtyard, constructed from rubble with tooled dressings and ashlar copes. A prominent conical stair tower, featuring a bell-cast, conical roof, projects from the south gable of the stable. This tower has four bargeboarded lucarnes pierced by pigeon flight holes, a bellcast fish-scale slate roof, and a cast-iron weathervane. Pedimented dormers break the wallhead above the range. A second drum tower, with a conical fish-scale and bellcast roof, flanks the entrance, which is marked by a pair of square ashlar gate piers with moulded pyramidal caps.

The stable court appears in its present form on the second edition Ordnance Survey map, dating to approximately 1905. It likely replaced a simpler, L-plan range that existed without an enclosing court, as shown on the 1871 first edition Ordnance Survey map.