Auchtertool House, Main Street, Auchtertool

Auchtertool House is an earlier 19th-century, two-storey classical house with a raised basement and a rectangular plan. It features a piend and platform roof, along with a Roman Doric-columned doorpiece and giant anta pilasters. The house is constructed of ashlar stone, with squared rubble on the sides and rear, and has ashlar quoins. It includes base, band, and partial ground floor cill courses, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course.

On the southeast (principal) elevation, there are windows in the outer bays at the basement and ground floor. The ground floor features an oversailing stair with railings leading to the Doric-columned doorpiece, which has a six-panelled timber door and a batwing-astragalled semicircular fanlight above a slightly advanced full-height centre bay. The first floor has three smaller windows, and there are giant anta pilasters at the outer angles.

The northwest elevation has a door in a flat-roofed porch at the centre bay, with a window to the right and another door to the left at the basement. The upper floors have regular fenestration.

The southwest elevation has a window in the centre bay at the basement and three windows on each floor above, with the outer bay windows being blind. The northeast elevation mirrors the southwest elevation, but the basement window is also blind.

The windows are timber sash and case with a 12-pane glazing pattern. The roof is slated, and there are broad, shouldered, cavetto-coped, ashlar wallhead stacks with a full complement of cans.

Inside, the principal ground floor rooms feature decorative plasterwork cornicing, fine timber and gesso Adamesque details, and marble fireplaces. The hall has stone flagging and a columned screen that opens into a stone turnpike stair with cast-iron balusters and a timber handrail. The basement has a massive stone-lintelled hearth.

The property is enclosed by rubble boundary walls, with corniced, flat-coped, square-section ashlar gatepiers that have decorative cast-iron pedestrian gates flanking the main entrance. There are also smaller pyramidally-coped piers with hooped ironwork gates to the southwest of the house.