Appin Mor Old Place

House, now a row of houses, dating back to the 15th or early 16th century, with alterations from the late 16th/early 17th century, and further changes and extensions around 1900 and 1930. The building is timber framed, with the ground floor of the main section faced with chequered red and grey brick. The ground floor of the left wing is built from coursed galletted stone, while the rest shows exposed timber framing with plaster infilling. Two arch-braces are visible in the hall range. The roof is covered with plain tiles. The original main range consists of three timber-framed bays, likely a two-bay hall with a storeyed bay to the left. A cross wing was added to the right end during the late 16th/early 17th century, projecting to the rear. A further cross wing was added to the left end around 1930. The hall range has one-and-a-half storeys, while the wings are two storeys with attics. Originally, the first floor of the right wing jutted out on a moulded bressumer, and was later infilled with applied timber framing. The attics of both wings project on moulded and brattished bressumers supported by shaped brackets, with carved bargeboards and pendants. The roof is discontinuous between the left wing and the hall range; the latter is half-hipped on the left side. There are multiple brick ridge stacks along the front slope of the roof towards the right end of the hall range, one towards the rear of the left wing, and one on the right side of the right wing. Two 20th-century dormers are visible on the hall range – one gabled with bargeboards and brackets on the left, and one flat-roofed on the right. The fenestration is irregular, with five windows excluding the dormers; two three-light leaded casements are in the left wing, and three ovolo-moulded wood mullion windows in the right wing. A 20th-century timber and brick porch with a ribbed door leads up three steps to the right end of the hall range. An inner doorway with a moulded four-centred arch dating to the late 16th/early 17th century, complete with hollow spandrels, is embedded in the wall at the left end of the hall range. Inside, there are two first-floor fireplaces – one of moulded stone, the other of chamfered brick. A shaped bracket sits to the right of the porch. The roof at the left end of the hall range is a common rafter construction with lapped collars, while the roof of the right wing features a clasped purlin structure with windbraces. A Venetian window and a mullioned window are located at the rear of the right wing and the side, respectively.