Stable Block, Lochinch Castle

The stable block at Lochinch Castle was designed by Wardrop and Brown and completed in 1867. It is a single-story building with an attic, arranged around a near-square courtyard. The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked sandstone. The majority of the attic windows break through the eaves, forming pedimented dormers, and are topped with finials.

The west (entrance) elevation features a segmental-arched entrance leading into the inner courtyard, which rises to a crowstepped gable. A single window sits within a stepped hoodmould, with a square plaque positioned below it. A clock is set into the crowstepped gable, and a weathervane sits at the apex. Flanking the entrance are circular drum towers, each with gunloops at their bases. Moulded corbels adorn the upper stories. The roof is conical and topped with finials. A timber entrance is located to the outer right. An advanced crowstepped bay to the left features single windows on the ground and attic floors, another square plaque to the crowstepped gable, and a finial at the apex. Single windows are placed at the re-entrant angles, with two windows at ground level and two modern windows at attic level to the outer left.

The interior of the west elevation has a segmental-arched entrance and a single window within a stepped hoodmould. The clock is visible in the crowstepped gable. Small timber dormers are located at the re-entrant roof angles. A single entrance and window are on the ground floor to the left, with a square-headed entrance to the outer left. A louvred opening in the attic provides ventilation, with a similar ventilation structure extending to the roof. Two single windows and an entrance are on the right side with another louvred central opening into the attic.

The north elevation features a central, timpany, crowstepped gabled bay with two single windows at ground and attic floor levels, along with a plaque to the gable. Dormers with finials flank the central bay, with the pattern repeated in the penultimate bays to the outer left and right, adding additional windows at ground floor level. Advanced, timpany, crowstepped gabled outer bays each have single windows at ground and attic levels, and plaques to gableheads. The interior north side has six openings at ground level leading to a verandah, and a central 3-light timpany gable (with the central light infilled). A plaque is to the gable, and two attic dormers flank either side.

The east (rear) elevation has a central, crowstepped gabled bay with a segmental arched entrance at ground floor level, a single window at attic level, and a plaque to the crowstepped gable and a finial. There are two square-headed entrances at ground floor to the left (double-width to the inner bay), and a square-headed entrance at ground level to the right, flanked by a single window to the right and a two-light window to the left. Attics on this elevation are punctuated by central dormers flanked by louvred attic ventilation to the roof. Gatepiers mark the entrance to the outer right.

The south (side) elevation incorporates a modern garage with a two-leaf timber door.

A variety of glazing patterns are used, with predominantly plate glass and six-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered in grey slate, with fishscale slating to the drum towers. Crowstepped stone skews, corniced ridge and gablehead stacks, and circular cans are present. The interior of the building was not inspected in 1999.