Threave House

A large, asymmetrical baronial house dating to 1872, designed by Charles Kinnear of Peddie and Kinnear. The house is three storeys high with attics and a basement, and includes a four-storey drum tower to the north-east angle. It is characterised by extensive decorative corbel work, string courses, angle turrets, and crowstepped gables.

The exterior is of stugged red ashlar with polished, chamfered margins. A balustraded flight of steps, terminating in piers with ball finials, leads to a roll-moulded doorway with double-leaf doors. Stepped roll-moulding is present above the door and flanking windows. A deep band of stepped corbelling sits above the second floor, while a corbelled balustraded parapet tops the building, incorporating an ogee domed caphouse with a spike finial. Most first-floor windows are bi or tripartite, with mullioned and transomed lights.

The west elevation features a projecting two-storey square window with corbelled angle turrets and a crowstepped gable above. To the left is a canted corbelled four-light oriel with a parapet, with twin crowstepped gablets flanking a tall central stack. Triangular or semi-circular dormer pediments are topped with ball finials. The roofs are slate, with corniced axial and wallhead stacks. The angle turrets have conical roofs covered in fish-scale slates. A single-storey range to the south-east provides service quarters, though it incorporates an intrusive metal garage door within a gable.

Internally, the house features deep coved plaster cornices and anaglypta cornices, panelled timber doors, and further decorative detail.

Threave House is part of a group of buildings which also includes Threave Stables and Lodge.