The Stables, Straloch House

The Stables at Straloch House, dated 1872, is a tall single storey and attic stable range built in an H-plan. It features five bays, a hayloft, a timber clock belfry with decorative finials, stone dormer gablets, and a mix of Tudor- and pointed-arch openings, including cart arches and stone-finialled gables. The structure is made of stugged coursed and squared granite with patchy harl on the sides and rear, complemented by ashlar margins and quoin strips. It has a deep base course and a band course that appears as a continuous hoodmould on the southeast gables. The doors are made of vertically-boarded timber.

The southeast elevation is symmetrical, with set-back centre bays that include a door at the center flanked by windows, and additional doors at the re-entrant angles. Two small dormer windows break the roofline at the center, and a square-plan clock belfry with a decorative cast-iron weathervane rises from the roof ridge. The advanced outer gables each contain two Tudor-arched windows at ground level and a pointed-arch window in the gablehead that features a dated tympanum. Each return has a door in the re-entrant angle, with the left side also having a small round-arched niche-type water trough at ground level. The courtyard area is paved with cobbled setts, and the doors have deep boarded fanlights.

The northwest rear elevation displays a variety of elements, including a Tudor-arched window on the left and a hayloft opening in the gablehead on the right. There is a broader advanced gable on the left with square-headed openings, and recessed centre bays under a catslide roof that feature two small piended roof ventilators.

On the northeast elevation, there are two cart arches flanking the water trough mentioned earlier. Most windows are timber-boarded, except for the left gable at the southwest, which has an 8-pane glazing pattern in a two-part timber casement window and a 4-pane glazing pattern in the dormers. The window on the northwest gablehead at the left has a 12-pane glazing pattern in a timber sash and case window. The roof is covered with grey slates and features coped ashlar ridge stacks, some of which are polygonal, along with ashlar-coped skews and moulded skewputts. There are small traditional rooflights, except for two replacements on the northwest side.

Inside, there is a timber-lined tackroom that includes a timber fireplace.