Lathallan

Lathallan is a large, two-story and attic Tudor country house with a later 19th-century wing, built in 1826 by Thomas Hamilton. A further wing was added in the late 19th century. The house is constructed of ashlar stone, with droved and stugged margins. It has a deep base course, a moulded string course, and a bracketed eaves cornice. Features include corbels, hoodmoulds with label stops, stone transoms and mullions, chamfered reveals, and moulded arrises.

The north (principal) elevation has a stone porch in the bay to the left of centre, with a two-leaf gothic-traceried door, a moulded doorpiece, and remains of a curvilinear gable. There are two windows to the right (bay 4 blocked) and three windows to the first floor (the centre and left windows are bipartite). Two small dormers are above, with shaped windowheads echoing the porch design. Advanced gables are present to the outer bays; the left gable has a six-light transomed window at ground level, a bipartite window at first floor, and a small square window in the gablehead. The right gable has a full-height rectangular panel incorporating a tripartite window at ground level, a transomed window at first floor, which rises into a raised chimney breast incorporating a gunloop and surmounted by a paired polygonal stack.

The west elevation has a gabled bay to the right of centre, with a tall, polygonal-roofed, five-light canted window at ground level, a bipartite window at first floor, and a small window in the gablehead. To the left are bays with a similar canted window at ground level, three windows at first floor, and two segmental-headed dormer windows above.

The east elevation has a gabled bay to the right with two windows to each floor, a corbelled chimney breast to the centre above rising into a windowed gable surmounted by a paired polygonal stack. A conical-roofed tower with small stair windows adjoins at the outer left. Two regularly-fenestrated bays with pedimented dormerheads are on the right return of the lower wing, set into a left wing.

The south elevation has two doorways at ground level to the left (formerly behind a conservatory), and two windows to the first floor. An advanced gable has a rectangular panel with a tripartite window below a bipartite window and a small window in the gablehead. Two further irregularly-fenestrated bays are to the outer right, with a lower wing adjoining and projecting beyond.

Some small-pane glazing patterns remain in timber sash and case windows, although principal ground floor openings are blocked. The roof is covered with grey slates, with coped, grouped polygonal ridge and gablehead stacks, and cavetto-coped rectangular stacks to the wing. Ashlar-coped skews have moulded skewputts.

The interior, which was not inspected in 2003, includes a fine decorative scheme, though it is in poor condition. This includes plain and decorative plasterwork, a groin-vaulted porch with a two-leaf gothic-traceried door to an entrance hall, a black slate chimneypiece in a stripped Tudor classical manner with an overmantel rising into an obelisk-topped triangular centrepiece, a stone scale-and-platt staircase with decorative cast-iron balusters, and conventional Elizabethan chimneypieces. The porch and drawing room have ribbed ceilings, and there is a panelled library.