Strathmiglo, Pitlour House

Pitlour House is a classical villa designed by Robert Mylne in 1783, with later alterations. It is a two-storey building with an attic and basement, featuring a five-bay rectangular plan. The house is set on raised ground, allowing it to overlook the village of Strathmiglo and the Lomond Hills. The exterior is constructed from coursed and tooled red sandstone ashlar, accented with yellow sandstone ashlar dressings. It has rectangular dormers on the north and south elevations, a base course, banded cill courses at the ground and first floors, a corniced eaves course, and a blocking course.

The entrance elevation has five bays arranged in a 1-3-1 configuration, with a break-fronted pedimented central section that includes an oculus window in the tympanum. There is a central tripartite arched entrance doorpiece with a fanlight, and a stone stair with cast-iron railings leading up to it.

The south elevation also has five bays, with a basement level flanked by single-storey wing walls that feature arched entrances and blind oculi, connected to coursed rubble retaining walls designed by Mylne in 2012. The west elevation consists of four bays with four two-leaf timber and glazed doors, each with fanlights. The north elevation has three bays, with the center bay featuring round arched windows and external cellars at the basement level.

The windows throughout the house are predominantly 12-pane sash and case, with aprons under the ground floor windows on all elevations. The roof is leaded with grey slate eaves, and there are rendered stacks with moulded coping and yellow clay cans.

Inside, as seen in 2013, the principal rooms are arranged around a central hall and lobby, connected in sequence. The interior features a simple Neo-classical scheme, with original plasterwork (some painted) in the principal rooms and original chimneypieces. The hall has a groin vault with pilasters and deep and shallow niches leading to the central lobby. The principal stairwell is bowed, with curved niches flanking a round arched window. The drawing room, which is bowed to the north, has a pair of niches and an early 19th-century painted ceiling. The basement kitchen offices include a barrel-vaulted kitchen with original stone shelving.