Fasnadarach

Fasnadarach

Probably designed by George Truefitt in the later 19th century, Fasnadarach is a 2-storey building with an attic and a 7-bay main range, formerly used as a fishing house for Glen Tanar. A single-storey, 4-bay wing extends to the east. The building is constructed of squared and snecked pink and grey granite, with rough-faced stones finely finished at the margins. Features include sloping cills, crowstepped gables, and decorative timber overhanging eaves.

The south elevation, which is asymmetrical, contains a 3-light window to the ground and first floors of the centre bay, with single light windows to the flanking bay to the right at both levels. Two piend-roofed 3-light dormers light the attic floor. To the left, two flanking bays are advanced, incorporating a lean-to porch with a turreted doorway to the right, a panelled stained glass door, and a piend-roofed canted window set in the gable at first floor. The bay furthest left contains 3-light windows to ground and first floors, with a piend-roofed 3-light dormer above. A gabled bay to the right, advanced, holds a 3-light window at ground floor and a bipartite window at first floor. The outermost bay to the right is recessed, while the outermost bay to the left is advanced with tripartite windows at both ground and first floors.

The east elevation is asymmetrical across 4 bays. Three gabled bays to the left have regular fenestration, with 3 windows at ground floor and 2 at first floor, and a single window set in the gable head of the attic floor. The gabled wing advanced to the right bay features a roof swept down and supported by a rusticated timber column on the left return, with a panelled timber door flanked to the right by a 2-light window and 2-leaf boarded timber door, and to the left by a stained glass window. A single window to the right return is flanked to the left by the swept-down roof.

The north elevation spans 9 asymmetrical bays. Ground floor bays to the right are advanced with a roof over sailing: the centre bay contains a 4-light window, with a 2-leaf glazed panelled timber door on the left return. The flanking bay to the right holds a 2-light window, flanked to the right by a 3-light window. At first floor, above these, are a 4-light bipartite window and 2-light window breaking the eaves. A recessed penultimate bay sits to the right, and the outer right bay contains a 5-light window with 2-light right return with interior stained glass, a window to the left return, and a 2-light window to the attic floor above. The third and fourth bays from the left are recessed with irregular fenestration at ground and first floors, lit above by a 6-light stained glass rectangular dormer. The penultimate bay to the left and the outer left bay each have 3-light windows at ground floor, with 3-light windows breaking the eaves at first floor and a piend-roofed dormer above.

The west elevation is asymmetrical across 3 bays. The centre bay is advanced with a spire roof, containing 4-light windows to ground and first floors, with 2-light windows in the left return at both levels. A 2-leaf glazed panelled timber door at ground floor of the right return sits beneath a porch supported by a rusticated timber column, with a 2-light window flanked by a stained glass 6-light window at first floor. The flanking bay to the left has a plate glass window at ground floor and a 2-light window at first floor. The bay to the right contains 2-light windows at both levels.

Windows throughout are predominantly single-pane and 2-pane timber casements. The roof is covered in rosemary tiles with fishscale piended sections and decorative terracotta ridge. Wallhead stacks are rough-faced with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods complete the exterior.

The interior was not inspected in 1998.

Two boarded timber summerhouses stand to the south of the house, with the south-west example possibly revolving. Both feature timber-framed windows and decorative timber overhanging eaves. An L-plan former stable block to the east comprises horizontally boarded timber with timber doors and window frames, topped by a decorative grey slate roof with lead ridge and ventilators. Granite rubble boundary walls with rough-faced coping and square-plan piers capped by half spheres complete the setting.