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Stables, still in use, built by Walker and Duncan of Aberdeen in 1894, incorporating earlier work, to the east of Muchalls Castle (NO89SE0004). It is a single-storey and attic L-plan coach house and stables. The principal range is of coursed pink rubble granite with droved dressings. There is a lower slate-roofed range to the north that is harled, and is from an earlier stables on this site. A variety of glazing patterns are used, with four-pane glazing with timber ventilators to the stables. The red tiled roof has a coped ridge stack with weather vane, there are two-catslide dormers over the coach house, decorative terracotta ridging and a cast-iron ventilator with ogival roof. The principal elevation has three-bay stables to the outer west, made up of two-leaf centre boarded door and windows to each side with segmental-arched ventilators over the openings. At the outer east is a harness room and two-carriage arches. There is a boarded door and single window to the harness room and two-leaf doors to the carriage arches. A rubble retaining wall has an adjacent pump. The north elevation has a lower wing projecting to the outer west and a door to the hayloft breaking the eaves to the right of centre. There is a gabled doorway to the attic at the outer east and irregularly dispersed ventilators. The west gable has a hayloft door, a rubble boundary wall adjoining to the outer south and a lower harled wing to the north with a window. The blank east elevation is built into rising ground. The interior has boarded trevises with cast-iron frames, a loose box to a similar design, integral troughs and hecks, a decorative iron ventilator grille and timber harness pegs.
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