Kirroughtree House Hotel

Kirroughtree House Hotel is a mansion house of 1719, significantly remodelled in the late 18th century, with service additions from the early 19th century. Further additions and alterations were made in 1907 by Peddie and Washington Browne. The building is two and three storeys high, with a basement, and is constructed of harled walls with painted ashlar dressings. Windows have architraves; the first floor windows have cornices, while the taller ground floor windows are detailed with lugged, festooned swan-neck pediments and aprons. Bracketed cills are present, corniced at ground and first floors, as are an eaves cornice and a blocking course. The roof is piended.

The south elevation, the former main entrance, features a three-bay arrangement. A canted bay is positioned at the centre, with oversailing balustraded steps leading to a French window, formerly the entrance, topped with a consoled broken-pediment. The fenestration is generally regular, although a boarded door is located at basement level in the right-hand bay. The west elevation presents a bowed bay with three windows on each floor, except for a modern door at the centre of the basement. A lower early 19th century service wing adjoins the left side, linked by a modern two-storey block.

The east elevation displays a bowed bay of the remodelled 1719 house to the left. To the centre is an early 19th century two-storey and basement, two-bay block, with an Ionic columned portico (likely dating from 1907) advancing in the left bay. This portico features a low balustrade and later ball finials, with Ionic pilasters flanking a lugged segmental-arched doorway. A cartouched mask sits above the architrave, accompanied by a fanlight. A narrow window is situated in each bay at the first floor. To the right are 1907 additions including a three-storey and basement octagonal tower with five exposed faces, similarly detailed with corniced cill courses, aprons to the windows at the first and second floors, and moulded panels to the corniced parapet. Basement windows are present on the north and east faces; the first floor windows have lugged architraves, blind to the northwest. Keystoned round-arched windows feature on the five faces at the second floor, blind on the north and to the northwest. A two-storey range adjoins the right side, raised from a single storey, with a string course marking the floor separation. Segmental-arched openings are present to the left at ground floor level, with three windows across the centre and right. The first floor has a window and a bipartite window to the left, and a tripartite window at the centre, with a single window to the right. A window is positioned to the east of the first floor, while a door and blind arrow-slits are present on each face at ground floor level.

The north elevation showcases a two-storey octagonal tower to the left, and a piended block forming an L-shape to the right, with service wings extending from it. The main house features two windows at both the first and second floors.

The windows are sash and case, with plate glass glazing and two-pane upper sashes. Corniced and banded ridge stacks are present. The roof is covered with grey-green slates, with purple slates to the service wings, alongside some octagonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are also present. Internally, a broken-pedimented tripartite architrave frames an internal door. A quarter-turn staircase has a timber balustrade and a timber scrolled pediment and architrave to the transomed tripartite stair window, which includes leaded glazing and stained glass roundels at the upper panels. A three-bay timber gallery is situated overlooking the staircase.

Formerly located to the south of the house was the site of the Hermitage, now marked by a sandstone round-arched stone inscribed “Hermitage 1844” and “Houlet’s Nest 17 Jany 1849.”