Description
Circa 1620, large Z-plan tower, rubble 4 storeys with
steeply pedimented ornamental dormerheads at third floor
windows. Main block orientated east-west of 3 bays grouped
1/2 with centre window at first floor flanked by minimally
ogee-arched panels (now filled with initials AWR and TIR and
date 1968 to record recent restoration). At north-west angle
tall conical-roofed drum tower with corbelled out stair
turret in re-entrant angle; at south-east angle circular
tower corbelled out to square at second floor; in re-entrant
angle at south-east, stair-turret corbelled out above
first floor. Circular conical-roofed bartizans at
south-west and north-east angles. Plentiful supply of
shortholes and loopholes; carved gargoyle spouts at towers;
crowsteps. Restoration (the tower was roofless) and additions,
Ross and Macbeth, 1850-6: new round-arched doorway made at
centre of south front, original door in south-east re-entrant
angle being converted to window; 4-storey rear wing, plain
with crowstepped gable, built at north with small single-storey
service court beyond it. Vaulted ground floor rooms; at
first floor hall, chimneypiece dated 1679 carved with heraldic
bearings, a hound and a hare (representations of courage
and timidity) and mermaids playing on harps. Remains of
barmkin wall.