Tayvallich House, Fowlis Easter

Earlier 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan, deep-eaved and gabled Italianate former factor's house with unsympathetic additions to rear. Coursed rubble, droved and margined ashlar dressings, slate roof. Windows originally 12-lying-pane (blinded window survives with this painted pattern (to ground floor E gable), now fixed plate glass with top-hinged top-pane, 4-pane sash and case to 1st floor S elevation with gabled dormerheads, slab canopies to ground floor, shallow segmental block lintels to 1st floor and front door. Unusually deep eaves (purlins and brackets probably exposed, now boxed-in), linked corniced end stacks rising through eaves.

S ELEVATION: porch advanced to centre, partially glazed door with fanlight, deep-eaved shallow-pitched roof; window to left and right main elevation, 2 windows to 1st floor, small blocked window to centre; mask motifs to apex of dormerheads.

E GABLE: centre window to ground and 1st floor; single storey addition to right.

W GABLE: centre window to ground and 1st floor, modern glazed addition advanced to left.

N ELEVATION: unsympathetic harled and tile-hung, flat-roofed additions. INTERIOR: modernised, chimneypieces removed.

COACH HOUSE/STABLE: single storey, rectangular-plan coach house and stable, dated 1832, made L-plan by addition to E, dated 1877. Rubble construction, droved and margined ashlar dressings to original buildings, stugged to addition. Piended slate roof. Boarded doors with 3-pane glazing to top. Corniced ridge stack to addition.

S ELEVATION: 4 doors asymmetrically positioned, door to left flanked by 2 small glazed apertures, 4-pane window between centre doors; large 2-leaf coach house doors to left return gable, lintel dated 1832; later gable advanced to far right, door to gable, large sliding door to left return.

E ELEVATION: blocked hen house entrance with platt to top left, steps removed.

N ELEVATION: 2 doorways.

INTERIOR: altered. Stone setts to byre floor at east end of original block.

BOUNDARY WALLS: rubble-coped rubble boundary walls, curved to main entrance.