Balmuir House

Balmuir House is a 2- and 3-storey mansion with an irregular plan, showcasing architectural styles from various periods. It features an inner courtyard and incorporates classical, Jacobean, and baronial details. The building's history likely begins in the early 18th century with a 3-storey rectangular house that has asymmetrical single-storey wings at the rear, possibly including earlier work at the southwest corner. The northwest wing was raised, refaced, and extended to serve as a dining room, while the main staircase was reconstructed in the early 19th century. Mid-19th century additions include oriel windows on the first floor.

In 1892, John Murray Robertson made several alterations, including the addition of shaped gable pediments and an angle turret to the original house. He also constructed a new entrance hall, billiard room, and nursery wing to the east, added a porch around 1897, and created first-floor bedrooms in the northeast wing, along with larders and various service extensions at the rear. The original building features stugged coursers on the south elevation, while the 1892 addition uses droved ashlar on the northwest wing and rubble on the northeast wing, which has stugged and snecked additions. The original stair gable on the north is harled and margined, with some 1892 additions in painted brick. The roofs are covered in grey slate, with piended and ogival shapes on the 1892 additions.

The windows throughout are sash and case, mostly with plate glass glazing. The original house has 4-pane windows on the second floor, 12-pane windows on the northwest wing, and various ground floor windows at the rear, including thick astragalled 12- and multi-pane windows at the stair gable. The south elevation features a symmetrical, 3-bay arrangement of the earlier 18th-century original house on the left, with a keystoned shoulder-architraved doorcase at the center flanked by narrow windows. There are tripartite oriels above on the first floor, a single window at the center, and three additional windows on the first floor with later alterations.