Caldwell House

Caldwell House is a castellated mansion built between 1771 and 1773 by architects Robert and James Adam for Baron Mure of Caldwell, with alterations made in the 20th century. The house is three stories high with a basement and has a symmetrical rectangular plan. The entrance front features five bays and a later wide, projecting porch, while the garden elevation has seven bays and the side elevations have three bays each. There is a later single-storey wing and an additional laundry addition to the northwest. The building has a machicolated and crenellated parapet with distinctive pepper-pot angle bartizans. It is harled with ashlar dressings, including an ashlar porch, and all windows have label moulds, with a band course between the ground and first floors. As of 2003, the house is derelict.

On the northeast (principal) elevation, there are three bays in the center with a porch that has panelled outer angle pilasters, a central door flanked by windows, and round-arched heads on all windows. The crenellated parapet is prominent, with a central bay above featuring double relieving arches and flanking later porthole windows. The outer bays are shallowly recessed with tripartite windows on the ground floor (originally single lights) and first-floor windows in shallow relieving arches, along with small attic windows above all bays.

The southwest (garden) elevation has four storeys and five bays in the center, with recessed outer bays that have later tripartite windows on the ground floor and regular fenestration overall. The northwest and southeast (side) elevations each have three bays with central advanced tripartite bays and later single-storey additions.

Little original glazing remains, as the house originally had 24-pane timber sash and case windows, with 12-pane windows in the attic. The roof is covered with grey slate in a piend and valley style, though it is partially collapsed, and there are ashlar stacks.

Inside, little original detail survives, but there are curved timber panelled hall doors.