Ericht Bank, Riverside Drive, New Rattray

Ericht Bank, located on Riverside Drive in New Rattray, dates from around 1800 and features 20th century additions. This single-storey and attic cottage has three bays and a nepus gable over the central door, along with a single bay extension. The structure is built of squared and snecked rubble with dressed quoins and raised margins, while the extensions are rendered. It has an eaves course.

The south elevation of the original building is symmetrical, with a central bay that includes a corniced and pilastered doorpiece, a deep-set panelled timber door, and a decorative astragal fanlight. There are tall windows in the flanking bays, one of which has been converted to a French window. The nepus gabled centre bay has a single window, and there is a flat-roofed dormer to the right. The later bay on the outer right features a 5-light timber transomed and mullioned window.

The west elevation has a gabled design with windows located centrally at the ground level and just to the right at the attic level, along with a low flat-roofed extension to the left.

On the north (entrance) elevation, there is a centre piended bay with two barred windows and a door in the re-entrant angle to the left. This elevation also includes two additional windows in the set-back flanking bays and a flat-roofed bay on the outer right.

The east elevation features an almost full-width extension with a smaller extension projecting at the centre. It has two windows on the return to the right and a narrow light on the set-back face at the outer right.

The windows throughout the building are timber sash and case with 8-, 12-pane, and plate glass glazing patterns. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, and there are coped ashlar and render stacks with cans, as well as ashlar-coped skews with block skewputts.

There is a small courtyard to the northeast, enclosed by rubble walls, flat-coped square-section gatepiers, and timber gates. The ancillary buildings include two piended ranges: the northern range is single storey with two boarded timber doors, while the eastern range features a variety of elements, including a timber forestair leading to a hayloft door at the centre.

The boundary walls are semicircular-coped rubble, and there are low saddleback-coped rubble walls with decorative ironwork railings inset. The gatepiers are pyramidally-coped and square-section.