East Range, Kennels, Arbigland House

East Range, Kennels, Arbigland House is an earlier to mid-18th century cottage. It has been altered significantly with substantial additions, resulting in a roughly T-shaped layout. The building is constructed of painted rubble with contrasting margins and cills. A tall gabled south wing, likely dating to the mid-19th century, features a single south-facing window on either side. A kitchen addition is located to the north, with a door within the re-entrant angle, and a swept roof. A bronze plaque is fixed to an otherwise blank wall. End stacks are present, and the roof is covered with graded grey slates.

The kennels, dating to circa 1860, were further modified in 2003. The original kennel building was roughly square in plan, with a lean-to kennel section and two adjoining walled enclosures topped with high spiked wrought-iron fences and gates to the rear. It has a piended roof with a gable to the rear and is irregularly fenestrated with casement windows and timber boarded doors. A large extension was built in 2003 on the southwest side. The original building is lime-washed, while the rest is built of random rubble with sandstone ashlar margins. A coped gablehead stack has two later red clay cans. The roof is covered with graded grey slates and grey ridge tiles.

A decorative cast-iron pump is located to the rear of the kennels, accompanied by a rectangular sandstone trough below.

The site is the birthplace and childhood home of Admiral John Paul Jones (1747-1792), known as the "Father of the American Navy”. A plaque commemorating this was erected in 1953 by the Naval History Association and the Army and Navy Chapter of the American Revolution, both of Washington DC USA. The building was repaired in the early 19th century by Lt Pinkham of the American Navy, details of which can be found in the New Statistical Account and on the website www.jpj.demon.co.uk. The south wing of the cottage is not shown on the first edition Ordnance Survey map.

The cottage is shown on the 1854 Ordnance Survey map, and the kennels on the 1861 Ordnance Survey map.