Aldroughty House, Spynie

Aldroughty House in Spynie is a single-storey house built over a raised basement, with two-storey outer bays, likely designed by William Robertson in 1829. The house features a symmetrical five-bay frontage made of tooled coursed rubble with polished ashlar dressings.

The entrance has a pedimented portico with a dated tympanum, supported by two fluted Greek Doric columns. The doorway has moulded architraves, a panelled door, and a rectangular fanlight. A corniced string course with a blocking course connects the central three single-storey bays to the slightly advanced two-storey outer bays, which each have apron windows on the ground floor. The same style of fenestration is found on the east and west return walls.

At the rear, there are single-storey, two-bay wings that match the main front, with the northeast wing designed by J Wittet in 1899 and the northwest wing dated 1930. The house features lying-pane glazing throughout, although modern plate glass has been used in the lower lights of the front ground floor sashes. The roof has coped paired ridge stacks and rear end stacks, with piended and gabled slate roofs, and there is a later centre dormer window.

Inside, the house has a simple layout with some remodelling from 1899 and later, and few original features remain.