Dalskairth House

Dalskairth House is a mid to late 18th century, two-storey, five-bay country house that features an attic and basement. It faces east and was originally symmetrical, with recessed full-height wings that may not be original, forming a U-plan. The house was remodelled around 1830, which included possibly enlarging the windows, inserting a panelled door with a fanlight, adding a bow to the west end of the north wing, and constructing the current main stair. Further alterations were made in 1899 by John A Campbell of Glasgow, which included adding a baroque porch and enlarging the north wing.

The exterior is harled with painted ashlar dressings and rusticated quoins. The east elevation features a porch with an open segmental pediment supported by pilasters, a round-headed doorway with steps inside, sash windows with plate glass on the ground floor and 12-pane glazing on the first floor, and flat-roofed dormers. To the left is a single bay wing, while the right (north) wing has a pilastered aedicular ingle-neuk, a similarly treated north-facing window, a wall-head stack above, and an oculus on the first floor. Additional architectural details include a base course, eaves and lintel band, cornice, blocking course, coped ends, wall-head and ridge stacks, and piended slate roofs. There is also a pyramidal-roofed porch to the south.

Inside, the house features a cantilevered stair with cast-iron balusters and significant remodelling from around 1899, including a round-arched screen in the hall and round-arched doorways leading into the north wing, each adorned with a cartouche in the tympanum. There is a fireplace and fitted cupboard in the angle alongside, pilastered openings in the billiards room, dado panelling, and some decorative early 19th century cornice plasterwork. The basement of the south wing has a shallow segmental-arched brick vault.