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Lodge, still in use, dated 1889 and probably built by George Truefitt. It is the South Lodge to Aboyne Castle (NO59NW0005), replacing earlier lodge to the west (NO59NW0108). From the tower of this lodge the gatekeeper could see along the three principal roads to and from the castle. It is a single storey and attic, square-plan lodge constructed from rough-faced, squared and snecked pink and grey granite that is finely finished to margins, with long and short quoins, sloping cills, relieving arches to the ground floor openings and a rope-moulded eaves cornice. The piended, graded grey slate roof has lead flashings, coped, shouldered granite wallhead stacks, that to south-east with an '1889' datestone, with circular can, and cast-iron rainwater goods. The south-east elevation has a bipartite window off-centre to the east and to the bay to the south, and a flat-arched opening with a column support to the outer angle at the east. There is a window breaking the eaves off-centre to the east of the attic floor with a tooled ivy pediment. The north-east elevation is four-bay. An advanced flue breaks the eaves to the penultimate bay to the north, with a carved shield of William Cunliffe Brookes. There are two flat-arched openings to bays to the east of the ground floor. At the attic floor there is a window breaking the eaves to the east with a carved ivy pediment. At the outer north is a circular-plan engaged tower with a window to the ground floor and a tripartite window to the first floor, a stepped rope hood mould and a boarded timber door to the re-entrant angle. The north-west elevation is three-bay. There are two flat-arched openings to the centre and west bays at the ground floor, a tower to the bay to the north with a doorway to the re-entrant angle and a small window to the bay to the west of the attic floor. The south-west elevation has a small four-pane window off-centre to the west of the ground floor and flat-arched openings to the outer west of the ground floor, surmounted by a tooled panel bearing 'H' of Huntly that is surmounted by a crown. To the south of the attic floor is a bipartite window breaking the eaves with a piended roof. There are two pairs of finely finished, square-plan, corniced granite gatepiers to the west and east of the lodge bearing a carved 'H' of Huntly surmounted by a crown within a rope-moulded roundel, and supporting two-leaf ironwork gates. To the south-east, south and west there are rough-faced coped boundary walls, adjoining the boundary walls of the former South Lodge (NO59NW0108).
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