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Former steading/stables for Aden House built circa 1800, in now in use as a museum and exhibition space. By the later 20th century they were ruined, and partly roofless. A semi-circular range, 2-storey, 11-bay, built of harled rubble, with a single rectangular coach-house in courtyard formed by the arc of the semi circle. At the centre there are six segmentally arched cart-sheds and a four-storey square dovecot tower (NJ94NE0042) with venetian windows at first and second floor level, tripartite lunette window at third floor level, topped by a truncated pyramid roof surrounded by a Roman-doric column open cupola with dome. A wing projects from the east side with a bellcote. Of the south side of the court only a quarter (single storey) was built. In the 19th century the steading included a sawmill, dairy, byres, stables, threshing mill and rooms for farm servants. In the early 1980s the stables were converted to craft workshops and a local exhibition in Aden Country Park. It has been converted into part of the Aberdeenshire Farming Museum. Photographic recording of the Grieve's House (at the western end of the curved range) was carried out in 2021 ahead of proposed alterations.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)