Tillyfruskie

Tillyfruskie is a small, two-story laird’s house dating from 1733, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is arranged as an L-plan with a courtyard adjoining it to the east. The exterior is harled (roughcast), with chamfered granite window reveals. A base course is also visible.

The principal, or east, elevation is symmetrical. A panelled timber door is centrally located on the ground floor, above which is a letterbox fanlight. Windows are present in each flanking bay, and the first floor has regular fenestration. A courtyard wall extends from the outer right side of the building. A single-story addition projects forward to the outer left, and the right return has a door and three irregularly placed windows, with a lamp in the corner.

The north elevation is gabled and features a small, infilled opening to the left of the gablehead. A modern electricity meter box is located on the ground floor, and a courtyard wall runs along the left side.

The west elevation is asymmetrical. A small vertical opening is near the center of the ground floor, and the ground and first floors have irregular window placement. A single-story addition is attached to the outer right, incorporating a square-plan engaged tower at the angle.

The south elevation is gabled and has an infilled opening with metal ventilators to the left of the gablehead. The ground floor is largely obscured by an adjoining single-story addition, with three windows to the right, flanked to the left by a modern glazed door. A tower is situated at the left angle with a bipartite (two-part) window, along with windows to the left and right returns. The tower has a pyramidal roof topped with a weather-vane finial.

Most windows are timber sash and case with four panes, while those at the rear have timber windows with top hoppers. The roof is covered in graded grey slate, with stone skews incorporating decorative skewputts. The skewputt on the northeast gable is dated "1733", and the one on the southeast is inscribed “DO ??” (likely referring to David Ochterlouny). The building has harled corniced gablehead stacks, and a ridge stack with an octagonal can on the single-story addition. Cast-iron rainwater goods are also present.

The interior has been refurbished in the late 20th century but retains some 19th-century detailing.

A rubble coped and harled courtyard wall runs alongside the house to the east, stepping down towards the east. Square-plan corniced gatepiers with spherical finials are located on the north side, with a decorative ironwork two-leaf gate. A pink granite cheese press sits against a rubble wall to the southeast. A four-step granite rubble mounting platform is located north of the house, and granite rubble walls adjoin the house to the south.

An ancillary single-story steading is located to the northeast of the house, constructed of harled rubble with finely finished granite dressings. It has a large round-arched opening with a bull’s-eye in the gablehead and a spherical finial. Windows are flanking to the left and right, with boarded timber doors to the outer left and right. A corrugated door is on the right return, and a rubble elevation is on the left return with a small boarded timber opening set in the gablehead. A modern building adjoins the rear of the steading, which has a corrugated roof and cast-iron rainwater goods.