Carlowrie

Carlowrie is a farmhouse dating from the mid-19th century, likely designed by David Rhind. The building comprises a two-storey main block, a single-storey and attic block, and a single-storey, L-shaped wing to the north. It is constructed of squared and snecked rubble with droved and polished ashlar margins, featuring chamfered arrises. A base course, long and short quoins, and consoled cornices to the ground floor windows are also present. Blind arrowslits are incorporated into the gables of the two-storey portion.

The south elevation has four bays, with an advanced bay to the left featuring a tripartite window at ground level and a matching window above. A single-storey flat-roofed porch with a window facing south and a four-panel timber door facing east sits in the re-entrant angle. Dormer windows with gabletted stone dormerheads break the eaves above both this bay and the bays to the right.

The west elevation includes a two-bay advanced block to the right, with windows centrally placed and to the outer left, each accompanied by a gablehead dormer with a gabletted stone dormerhead. A recessed bay features a bipartite window at ground level and a gablehead dormer above, while a window in the south-facing reveal provides light. An advanced gable to the left is blank at ground level, featuring a window at the first floor.

The north wing is a single-storey, L-shaped structure, possibly a former gig-house. It has a single window on its east elevation, a single window centred in the gable on its north elevation, and a blank west gable. A modern vertically-boarded timber sliding door faces south, and a modern timber door faces west, near the re-entrant angle with the south side of the building.

The east elevation features a blank advanced bay to the far left, with a blind arrowslit in the gable topped by a tall, pyramidal stone finial. A two-bay, single-storey and attic central block has bipartite and single windows at ground level, with dormer windows and gabletted stone dormerheads above. A single-storey wing extends to the outer right.

A variety of timber sash and case windows are found throughout. The roof is covered in graded grey slate, with cast-iron rainwater goods. The building has twin-flue, square droved ashlar ridge and gablehead stacks capped with circular cans, along with skewes and scroll skewputts.

A rubble garden wall surrounds the garden to the west of the house, with semicircular coping on the east and north sides, and random rubble with coping on the west side. This wall is parallel with the principal elevation of the Carlowrie steading (listed separately). The garden is protected to the south by a small ha-ha.