Eaglescairnie House

Eaglescairnie House is a substantial mansion house with a complex building history, likely evolving from an earlier L-plan house built in the early 18th century. A pediment dated 1595 is incorporated into the stable block, suggesting a possible late 16th-century house existed on the site previously. A three-storey rectangular block was added to the south in the earlier 19th century, effectively doubling the size of the mansion, accompanied by alterations to the original fabric. Further expansion occurred by the mid-19th century with the addition of a three-storey bay to the east, and the main entrance was relocated to the south and given a classical porch. A service court was established to the northwest with the addition of irregular, piend-roofed outbuildings, potentially constructed at the same time. The entire house was reconstructed before 1939 following a fire around 1930.

The house is built of rubble cream sandstone, with harl pointing to earlier work, and broad droving to the dressings. Grey ashlar dressings are characteristic of the mid-19th-century additions. The south block features an irregular elevation with an advanced, canted bay to the left, a bay to the left of that, and two bays to the right. A wide, later bay projects to the outer right. Tall windows illuminate the principal floor, with tripartite windows on the ground and principal floors of the outer right bay. A corniced ashlar porch, added in the mid-19th century, fronts the centre, with a keystoned, moulded door surround and two-leaf panelled doors. The side elevations each have two bays, with a two-storey corniced canted bay added to the east elevation.

The earlier L-plan house retains some windows with relieving arches, indicating their 18th-century date, although many have been altered. Decorative scrolled skewputts adorn the ashlar-coped skews (later additions), and the roof pitch has been lowered. End stacks are present. The stairblock exhibits chamfered angles and a piend roof.

Service buildings include a rectangular range added to the north end of the north-south wing of the L-plan house, single-storey with a piend roof. Two interlocked blocks are situated on falling ground to the west, added to the northwest corner of the east-west wing of the L-plan.

Sash and case windows are fitted with square and horizontal 12- and multi-pane glazing, and the roofs are covered in grey slates.

The interior was largely destroyed by the 1930 fire; however, features retained include an elliptical, cantilevered stone staircase with a timber balustrade, dating back to the 18th century, and an ornate mid-18th-century white marble chimneypiece, originally from the Senate Room of Edinburgh University's Old Quadrangle, located in the east drawing room.

To the west of the house lies a large walled garden with rubble walls of varying heights, partly brick-lined and partly harl-pointed. A gateway on the east side features a brick segmental archway and a stone overthrow with a decorative wrought-iron gate. A decorative hot-house, rectangular in plan, is situated in the southeast quarter of the garden.

A single-span rubble bridge of short span, likely 19th century, crosses a burn to the west of the house and near the service buildings. The bridge has a round arch and semi-circular coping to the parapet.