Description
Alexander Miller, carpenter, and Hugh Suter, mason, 1800-01.
Originally 2-storey and basement 3-bay centre block linked
by single-storey and basement quadrants surmounted by low
1st floor screen wall with blind windows to slightly advanced single-storey and basement one-bay pedimented wings with
thermal windows at basement and Venetian windows in arched
recesses at ground floor; band course at ground floor, 1st
floor string course, cornice and parapet at centre and
quadrants. Rear wing added Alexander Miller, carpenter,
Inverness, Lewis Yule, John Yule, John McWatt and Colin
Nicolson, masons, Nairn, 1804-05. Centre bay at front
surmounted by attic screen wall with carved pediment
(pediment supplied by Robert Burn, Edinburgh), 1805. Square
plan tower with angle bartizans, Lewis Yule, John Yule and
Colin Nicolson, masons, 1806, at centre of rear.
Idiosyncratic fluted Greek Doric portico at centre bay of
front, Hugh Suter, mason, 1811. East wing, William Symon,
master mason, and Lachlan Mackintosh, carpenter, 1822,
single-storey and basement. East wing gothicised, 1827,
William Symon, master mason, and Alexander Fraser, carpenter
with insertion of hoodmould 3-light cusped and traceried
window and heightening of square-plan castellated bartizans
flanking gable. West wing added, 1827, William Symon, master
mason, and Alexander Fraser, carpenter, single storey and
basement, castellated style with 3-light ground floor window
under Tudor hoodmould to front. Alterations, Alexander
Fraser, master mason, 1830-31, spired belfry added at centre
of west wing (only clock-stage now survives), cast-iron lion
(sculpted by Anderson, Edinburgh, cast by John Wells,
Inverness) erected at apex of east wing (now removed),
interior of house remodelled with new staircase and Gothic
1st floor added to portico (pinnacles at parapet now
removed). Front rendered, 1834. Further alterations and
additions, James Ross 1851.