Douneside House

Douneside House

Douneside House is dated 1907 but was probably built in three phases between approximately 1907 and 1917, with some work by architect Clement George. The house was constructed on a late 19th-century core. It is a 2-storey, 4-bay rectangular-plan asymmetrical Scots Revival house with a 2-stage castellated entrance tower at the centre and an additional single-storey gabled bay to the outer right. The building is harled granite with polished granite margins to the openings and detailing. It features a base course, eaves course, and crowstepped gables.

The principal south elevation has a 2-stage, square-plan entrance tower at the centre with a roll-moulded reveal to the entrance and a continuous string course above a plaque bearing the inscription "AR 1907". A tall rectangular window to the second stage has an oculus above it. The tower terminates in a crenellated parapet. Symmetrical flanking bays comprise stone mullioned bipartite windows to the ground floor, with semicircular-arched pediments to wallhead dormers breaking the eaves above. A lean-to verandah is supported on "Highland" pine log columns. To the outer left is a shouldered gable with a slightly advanced bay. An advanced canted bay at ground level has a crenellated parapet and a corbelled corner turret with a candle-snuffer roof. To the outer right is a single storey gabled bay with a swept roof and an advanced canted bay at ground level.

The north rear elevation has slightly irregular fenestration with gabled wallhead dormers breaking the eaves.

The east side elevation features a gable end to the outer right and a corbelled right return. A corbelled oriel window is positioned to the left return. A service courtyard at the centre contains numerous modern additions. A broad gable end is located at the outer left arm of the courtyard, with a left return to the main elevation.

The west side elevation has a single bay continuation of the main elevation to the right, returning to a gable end abutting the gable end of the main block to the left. An irregular 2-storey arrangement of gables and turrets forms an additional range abutting the northwest corner, terminating in an octagonal summerhouse.

The windows throughout are multi-pane upper case with plate glass lower sashes of sash and case type. The roofs are covered in grey slates with lead flashing and coped gable stacks.

The interior features a timber-panelled lobby leading to an ornately carved central staircase. A room to the right has a coffered panelled ceiling, while the room to the left has Adam-style plasterwork to the ceiling.

Home Farmhouse

The Home Farmhouse dates to circa 1900 and is a 2-storey, 3-bay L-plan farmhouse built of granite courses. Stone mullioned bipartite windows flank a central doorway on the south-facing principal elevation. Gabled dormers break the eaves to the upper storey. A 2-storey, 2-bay advanced gabled bay to the rear has a cat-slide roof over a single-storey outhouse to the left return. A stone cheese press stands against a coped rubble garden wall. Windows are 4-pane upper case with plate glass lower sashes of sash and case type. The roof is covered in grey slates with lead flashing and coped skews with scrolled skewputts and gable stacks.

Alpha Cottage

Alpha Cottage dates to circa 1900 and is a single-storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan timber kit house with a hipped corrugated iron roof. A central doorway is flanked by canted bay windows. Tall harled brick gable stacks rise from the walls.

Gatehouse

The gatehouse is a single-storey, double-bay, cruciform-plan structure in Scots Revival style. It is built of harled granite with moulded and painted margins to the openings and quoins. The gatehouse features crowstepped gables. An angled advanced entrance porch with a crenellated parapet is inset to the corner facing the road. Tripartite stepped rectangular windows are set to the gable ends with blind arrowslits to the gableheads. A small flat-roofed extension is located to the rear.

Boundary Wall and Gatepiers

A coped rubble granite boundary wall terminates in square-plan droved granite piers with tall pyramidal caps.