Stracathro House

Stracathro House is a large, symmetrical Graeco-Roman mansion built with ashlar stone, featuring two storeys on the southeast side and a later addition of a two-storey attic and basement on the northwest side. The house has single-storey wings and a segmentally-arched terrace at the main block on the northwest frontage. The southeast elevation showcases a six-bay fluted Corinthian colonnade set between pilasters, with balustraded ends that have two windows each. The central three bays are advanced and topped with a pediment, resembling the porte cochere of Carlton House in London. The wings display a tetrastyle anta order with a pediment and a seven/eight window arrangement on the northwest front, featuring a tripartite window at ground level. The terrace and basement are rusticated.

Inside, there is a central hall topped with a dome on pendentives, supported by marble Corinthian columns and adorned with yellow scagliola walls. Three notable rooms in the northern section include a central room with a segmentally-arched ceiling and scagliola columns, painted and stencilled ceilings, and a Pompeian red staircase with decorative panels. The architect Archibald Simpson from Aberdeen began the construction in 1827.