Arkleton House

Arkleton House is a large, asymmetrical Scots Baronial mansion dated 1860, with construction possibly occurring in two phases. The greater portion was likely built around 1884, coinciding with the stables, and may have been designed by Andrew MacQueen. It appears to incorporate elements of a late 17th and 18th century house at the western end. The house is three and four storeys high with attics. It is built of stugged and snecked yellow ashlar with polished dressings. Notable features include stepped corbel tables and roof levels, crowstepped gables or saw-toothed skews with scrolled skewputts, corbelled angle turrets, and single or mullioned windows, mostly square-headed with plate-glass sashes, some with pedimented dormer heads. A tall, four-storey dummy tower house with a corbelled turret is situated at the southwest corner. A screen wall with an archway extends north from a low wing, separating a service area to the east. The east and west ranges flanking the tower are lower and asymmetrically recessed on the long southern elevation. The western range is almost square in plan, featuring a gabled square bartizan at the southwest corner. The main entrance, at the north side, has a roll-moulded, shouldered, and hood-moulded surround, with a datestone set high above. A circa 1884 swimming pool roof adjoins the western range to the south. Crow-stepped, low outbuildings and a garage extend to the east. A reset 17th or 18th century bolection-moulded doorway faces north into the courtyard, its western jamb largely reconstructed in the 19th century.

The entrance hall features a bolection-moulded chimney piece, possibly from the 19th century, with an overmantel made of good and early carved and traceried panels incorporated into a timber frame, and an inscribed lintel set above. Further interior features include good cornice plasterwork and marble chimney pieces.

A datestone initialled "W(alter) S(cott) E(lliot)" and "MJ" is present, along with other carved stones dated 1631 and 1537. Two reset stones are dated 1671 and 1673.