Waterybutts

Waterybutts is a house built in 1802, with an older stair tower and alterations made in the mid and late 19th century. It is a two-storey building with an attic and three bays, featuring classical detailing. The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked rubble, some of which is in Aberdeen-bond, with ashlar dressings and raised quoins. The house has an eaves cornice and a blocking course.

On the southeast (principal) elevation, the central bay has a concave moulded doorpiece, a deep-set nine-panelled timber door, and a plate glass fanlight above it. There is a window above the door. To the left, there is a canted bay with tripartite windows on each floor and a dividing cornice. The right bay is slightly advanced and also features a wide-centre tripartite window on each floor, with a dividing cornice. Above, there are three finialled, round-headed dormer windows.

The southwest elevation has a projecting gable on the outer right, which includes a window at ground level and an attic window in the centre. There is a bipartite window below a single window on the return to the left. A conical-roofed projecting stair tower is located in the re-entrant, with a bipartite window beyond it to the left. There is a modern two-leaf glazed door below the bipartite window in the penultimate bay to the left, and a four-light canted window with a polygonal roof on the outer left.

The northeast elevation is asymmetrical, featuring a variety of elements including a gable to the left with an altered door, a piended bay to the right, and two single-storey bays in the recessed centre.

The northwest (rear) elevation has a large blank gable to the right, with single-storey additions in the re-entrant to the left.

Most windows are timber sash and case with 12-pane and plate glass glazing patterns. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, and there are cavetto-coped ashlar stacks with thackstanes and cans. Decorative cast-iron downpipes with rainwater hoppers are also present.

Inside, the house features fine decorative plasterwork and panelled shutters. The vestibule leads to a screen door and a semicircular fanlight with a tiny mask at the apex. The hall floor is tiled with intarsia, and there are marble and carved timber fireplaces. A curved stair with plain balusters and a timber handrail leads to the first floor, which has gothic arches on the landing and a plasterwork roundel for the ceiling light in the attic.

The boundary walls are made of flat-coped rubble, with square-section gatepiers that are pyramidally-coped.