Redcliff, Whittingehame

The property comprises a stable range and associated buildings at Redcliff, Whittingehame, probably designed by William Burn in 1832. The composition includes a two-storey, gabled house linked by single-storey bays to a two-storey Estate Office, situated on sloping ground.

The buildings are constructed of stugged red sandstone, squared and snecked with ashlar dressings. A base course is present, and the openings have chamfered arrises and stone mullions to the bipartites.

The South Elevation is symmetrical, with three bays defining the house, and a full-height, gabled porch projecting centrally. The porch is corbelled to form a square, containing a first-floor tripartite doorway with mannered lintels, a strip fanlight, and a boarded door. A corbelled oriel with leaded bays features hoodmoulded bipartites at ground level, and bipartites that break the eaves in gabled dormerheads. Recessed bays to the outer left have a later bipartite window and door, adjoining two two-storey bays of the Estate Office, which are slightly advanced to the outer right. Single windows are present at ground level, and the first-floor windows are topped with gabled dormerheads that break the eaves, with blind slits in the apex.

The East Elevation has a slightly advanced gable to the left, featuring two windows at ground level. Heavily corbelled rectangular oriels with stone roofs flank a blank panel in the first-floor bays. Two linked, corbelled gablehead stacks are also present. A lower wing has bipartites to the outer right bay, with a gabled dormerhead above the first-floor window.

The West Elevation displays two bays of the Estate Office, showcasing a valley formed by a former M-gable bridged between corbelled stacks. Hoodmoulded windows are present to both the ground and first floors. An advanced stack to the house stands above the single-storey link to the East. A doorway to the Office is located on the North elevation.

The North Elevation has a pentice-roofed stone porch adjoined to the house gable. The buildings generally feature small-pane glazing in sash and case windows, and are covered with grey slates. Gable coped skews have consoled skewputts, and coped drum stacks are present.

The interior includes a winding stair with a decorative cast-iron balustrade, panelled pine doors, unusual plasterwork cornices, and a white marble chimneypiece brought from Rosehaugh (demolished), Black Isle.

A gabled, single-storey stable range runs north-south to the North, constructed from the same materials as the main buildings. It features ashlar coped skews and louvred ventilators to the ridge of the grey slate roof. Four stable doors are present on the West side, each with boarded doors and small-pane fanlights. Sliding machinery doors have been inserted into the penultimate bay from the left.

Square red sandstone gatepiers with pyramid caps and coped quadrants mark the entrance to the property to the southwest. Decorative wrought-iron gates are also present.