Barmagachan

Barmagachan is an early 18th century, two-storey Lairds House that has undergone unsympathetic alterations and additions around 1970. The house is rectangular with five bays and features an entrance on the north side. To the south, two single-storey wings project, creating a courtyard. The west wing has been raised in brick to add an attic storey with dormers facing west, and the courtyard has been enclosed to the north with a two-storey addition made of brick, concrete, and glazed flat roofing, built into the sloping ground.

The exterior is constructed of rubble walling with roughly squared quoins, all painted and sporadically rendered, except for the north elevation of the main house and the west face of the east wing. There is a slightly battered basecourse and some roll-moulded openings on the north side.

On the southeast elevation, the window openings likely reflect their original dimensions, although those on the ground and first floors to the left have been widened and then reduced during the 1970s alterations. The central stair window and the first window on the right are original, with single pane pivot glazing.

The north elevation features a central roll-moulded door, with the end bays of the five-bay frontage blocked by the east and west wings. The central doorway has roll-moulded granite jambs. Most windows have roll-moulded jambs made of either granite or freestone, with some clearly being reused. The modern sash and case glazing consists of nine panes on the ground floor and twelve panes on the first floor.

Above the door, there is a recessed panel that once held a mural panel, which is now likely relocated to the wall of Kirkandrews Old Church. This panel contains the initials of Ephraim McLelland and Grizell Lindsay, who are believed to be the builders of Barmagachan between 1717 and 1737. The main house has a steeply pitched roof covered with graded slates, featuring end skews with intermediate kneelers and skewputts, along with coped end stacks.