Highbroom, Burnside Of Duntrune

Highbroom, located at Burnside Of Duntrune, is a late Arts and Crafts-style house designed by J Donald Mills and Godfrey D B Shepherd in 1924. This two-storey and attic building is laid out in an L-plan and features harled brick with ashlar dressings, a red tile roof, and ribbed lead at the entrance tower. The house primarily has single windows with ashlar cills, although the original frames have unfortunately been replaced with uPVC double glazed units that do not match the character of the building. The entrance tower showcases original ogeed glazing patterns in its round-headed windows, and the structure has deep eaves, a piended roof, and ashlar coped ridge stacks topped with uniform terracotta cans.

On the northeast re-entrant elevation, there is a canted entrance and stair tower at the central re-entrant angle, which breaks the eaves. It features a keystoned round-headed roll-moulded doorcase at the center, flanked by two decorative corbel stones at the first floor. To the left, there is a small round-headed window with moulded margins, and three stepped stair windows with moulded cills at the first floor. The tower is topped with a pinnacled octagonal-plan swept lead roof, complete with a ball and weathervane finial. The left wing has three windows at the ground floor and two at the first floor, arranged asymmetrically, while the right wing has two windows at both the ground and first floors, arranged symmetrically, along with a single-storey piended roof bay with a window at the far right.

The southeast elevation is three-bay and symmetrical, featuring a single-storey projection at the center with three windows facing south, one window on the left return, and a door on the right return. This section has a moulded cornice with a cast-iron balustrade, along with a door and adjoining flanking windows at the first floor, and a piended dormer above. There are additional windows at the ground and first floors on both the left and right sides, with two windows at the ground and first floors on the right return gable, where the dormer has been removed.

The west elevation is five-bay (1-2-1-1) and near-symmetrical, featuring single windows at both the ground and first floors, except for a bowed tripartite window at the ground floor far right. There is also a single-storey piended roof bay at the far left with two windows.

Inside, the house boasts a fine well stair with a vertically ribbed solid hardwood balustrade and a domical vaulted ceiling. The original chimneypieces have been removed, and there is a round-arched, architraved, and pilastered vestibule door.