Dunollie

A large house, dating to 1901 and designed by A.J. Penty in the neo-Georgian style. The house is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and a hipped, bell-canted Cumberland slate roof, featuring nine tall brick stacks and moulded, decorated eaves. Glazing bar sash windows are present throughout. The east-facing entrance front is recessed with a five-bay central section and projecting three-bay wings. The central section features an ashlar entrance colonnade with pairs of Ionic columns supporting a plain entablature topped by a balustrade. The entrance has double glazed panel doors with a segmental over-light flanked by half columns, and a three-light mullion window with iron casements to the left. Above is a glazed balcony door with an over-light in a carved wooden surround depicting fruit, flanked by two sashes. Three three-light dormer windows with iron casements are above. The projecting wings each have four plain pilaster strips, with three sashes with keystones, above which are a further three sashes, and above again, single four-light dormer windows. A set-back four-bay wing is present to the right, featuring three sashes, and three smaller sashes above. The south-facing garden front has a projecting two-storey canted bay with a central glazed garden door, flanked by sashes, with further sashes above. An open sleeping balcony with a plain balustrade and hipped roof is present. To the south-west is a lean-to conservatory, beyond which is a tall two-storey transom and mullion window illuminating the great hall. The interior includes a panelled vestibule with a barrel vault leading to a two-storey great hall with a wooden roof, gallery with turned balusters, panelling with fluted Doric pilasters, a four-centred arched stone fireplace, a built-in organ with a 17th-century style wooden case, and a tall oriel window featuring Art Nouveau style stained glass. A dog leg staircase has turned balusters and square newels. The morning room, now a library, has mid-18th-century style decoration including panelled walls, a plaster ceiling and coving, and an elaborate fireplace with a panelled over-mantle. The drawing room has early-18th-century style decoration with bracketed plaster coving and a wreathed plaster ceiling with fluted Ionic pilasters either side of a carved marble fireplace. The billiard room has wainscot panelling and a plaster ceiling with raised seating around the walls. The dining room is decorated in a sumptuous mid-18th-century style, featuring a fireplace recess with fluted Doric marble columns in antis between pilasters, white marble with black bases and capitals, panelling, fluted Ionic pilasters, fine carved door cases, a bolection mould fireplace, and an oval wreathed plaster ceiling. Bedrooms also feature good quality plasterwork, with the Master Bedroom in the Adam style.