Crawfordton House School

Crawfordton House School is a Scottish Baronial mansion house dating to 1865 and designed by Peddie & Kinnear. The building is asymmetrical in design, with two main storeys and attics above a raised basement. It is constructed of snecked, bullfaced ashlar with polished dressings, incorporating rope and roll mouldings, strings, corbelled angle turrets, crow-stepped gables, finialed and pedimented dormer heads. The windows are single or mullioned. A four-storey square tower rises over the entrance bay, corbelled and machicolated, with a conical-roofed cap house above a stair turret.

The north elevation features an off-centre, flat-roofed porch linked to the main section by a curved passageway, decorated with foliate motifs below the parapet. A pedimented datestone sits above the architraved entrance door. Above the door in the tower is a round-headed window with columned jambs and arched head, accompanied by a corbelled semi-circular balcony. Slightly advanced outer gables are present, along with an angle turret at the north west, topped with a conical roof that supports a columned belfry with its own conical roof. An adjoining low service wing extends north, and a modern classroom addition, excluded from the listing, is located at the north east angle. The east elevation has outer bays that are canted and corbelled below the gables. Full-height circular turrets are positioned in the inner re-entrant angle, and a boldly corbelled balcony is situated in the inner bays above basement level, with an arcaded balustrade. The south elevation features a four-light ground floor window in a projecting square bay. Two tall wall head stacks are present, and the south west angle turret is corbelled above the basement, rising to a square shape and then a gable at the first floor. A three-light stair window with stepped cills and a pedimented gable faces east. Wall head, apex, and axial stacks, some offset and mostly decorated below the cope, are also visible. The roofs are slated.

Inside, the ground floor ceiling cornices are mostly decorated with foliate motifs, mirrored in the chimney pieces. A grand staircase features twisted wooden balusters with pendants below the newels. The library contains fitted bookshelves, and a large adjoining room to the south east has a ribbed ceiling. A partly enclosed terrace extends from the building, featuring a rubble-built wall of irregular plan with an ashlar parapet and piers. The building was originally constructed for George Walker of Crawfordton, and was purchased by the school in 1940.