Orchardton House

Orchardton House is a later 18th century house that was largely rebuilt and incorporated into a large Baronial mansion constructed in 1881. The building features asymmetrical elevations, with a lower two-storey central block and taller advanced angle bays, crowstepped gables, corbelled turrets, and tall coped stacks. An important internal feature is an elaborately carved piscina/aumbry that has been reset in the hall. The house has two storeys, an attic, and basements, with bull-faced granite walling, polished margins and quoins, and thinly roll-moulded openings. Some pinned rubble walling in the central block indicates 18th-century work.

The south elevation has five bays, with taller advanced gabled end bays. The right bay features a moulded sandstone neo-Jacobean pilastered doorpiece, with a panel above inscribed "WD 1851, RD 1921." The entrance has double-leaf timber boarded doors with elaborately decorative hinges. Above the door on the first floor is a panel dated 1881, and above this is a projecting corbel-string course with a corbelled canted oriel set in the gable. The extreme left bay has corbelled angle turrets flanking the gable. The central three bays are lower two-storey with a projecting canted window to the ground left. The deep plain parapet features false cannon gargoyles, and the windows are either single light or bipartite, with tripartite windows to the ground left. The windows are sash and case with either two-pane or plate glass glazing.

The other elevations are asymmetrical and similarly detailed, featuring full-height or corbelled round turrets with conical slate roofs and lead spike finials. There is a band course over the ground floor and a partial corbel course over the first floor. All gables are crowstepped with stone finials, slate roofs, tall coped wallheads, and axial stacks.

Inside, the house is mostly from around 1880, with some later details. It includes a well-crafted panelled stair hall with carved timber balusters and good carved timber neo-Jacobean chimneypieces. The entrance hall features the reset medieval piscina/aumbry and a mock baronial stone chimneypiece.