Boathouse, Dundas Loch, Dundas Castle

The boathouse at Dundas Loch, part of Dundas Castle, was built around 1910. This single-storey cottage sits over a boat-port, creating a symmetrical structure that showcases influences from Swiss Cottage and Tudor styles. The exterior features harled walls adorned with decorative half-timbering and timber detailing, along with a bracketed timber band course at the principal floor.

On the southwest entrance gable, the design is symmetrical with three bays, and the lower boat-port is positioned on falling ground at the rear. The principal floor has a central door framed by strip pilasters, topped with a bracketed timber canopy. Flanking the door are 8-pane timber fixed-lights, and the elevation and gablehead are decorated with half-timbering.

The southeast elevation has a blank lower stage, with a shouldered single flue stack that is corbelled out at the center and rises through a chimney gable that breaks the eaves. To either side, there are 4-pane timber casement windows, with a half-timbered section to the left of center and an open timber-balustraded balcony to the right.

On the northeast gable, there are boat-port doors at the lower storey, and a timber-balustraded arcaded balcony at the principal floor, which features a half-timbered gable that oversails.

The northwest elevation has a door offset to the right of center at the lower storey, and an 8-light mullioned and transomed timber oriel window is centered at the principal floor. This elevation includes casements and multi-pane glazing in the lower and upper lights, respectively, supported by slender bracketed timber columns below. Above, the half-timbered gable breaks the eaves, with a half-timbered section to the right of center and an open timber-balustraded balcony to the left.

The roof is covered with red tiles and features cast-iron rainwater goods. It has swept, overhanging timber eaves with exposed rafter ends, wide splayed timber barge boards at the gables with truncated finials at the apexes, and a harled and corniced stack that pierces the roof at the south gable.