Stables, Seapark House, Kinloss

Dated 1868, the stables at Seapark House form a substantial castellated stable and carriage house complex arranged around a courtyard. The north-facing front features a large arched entrance, flanked by wings that extend to create a U-shaped courtyard facing the roadway. The building is constructed from coursed rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. A tall four-centred archway, topped with crenellations, connects to square, two-storey towers with crenellated wallheads, and these are linked by single-storey, two-bay quadrants. Hoodmoulded first-floor windows are found in the outer blocks, set within panels bearing a monogram and the date. The ground floor originally had three-light windows, but these have been modernised in the northeast. Gabletted dormer windows project from the wallhead on the inner face of the east and west wings, which are connected by a considerably altered single-storey range. The west wing features a square ridge bellcote with a piended roof and narrow, louvred slits; a similar tower on the east wing has been fitted as a dovecot, also pierced with flightholes. Some original four-pane glazing remains, although most ground floor windows now have modern replacements. Coped end stacks rise from the building, and the roofs are gabled and piended, covered in slate, with cast-iron apex weathervanes on the northeast and northwest towers. A plaque on the north front is initialled EPDD, relating to Edward and Phoebe Dunbar Dunbar, of Kinloss and Rothes.