Brankstone Grange

Brankstone Grange is a baronial mansion built for the Dalgleish family, designed by the architect David Bryce of Edinburgh between 1864 and 1867, with later additions by Sir R R Anderson in 1896. The building features a castellated tower block and a two-storey porch wing, with rainwater heads dated 1908. It has gabled ranges to the north, west, and south, with lesser ranges returning to the north to enclose a walled yard.

The tower is notable for its castellated parapets and a circular corner stair with a caphouse, which matches the outlooks at the other corners. It also features false machicolation and rises a full storey above the roof height of the mansion. The distinctive west range has a nearly symmetrical arrangement, highlighted by a three-storey splayed and crow-stepped bay at the center, with a corbelled square on the first floor. The south front is adorned with four gabled dormers topped with thistle, rose, and fleur-de-lys finials. A line of quoins remains in the center of the wall, and there is a parchment scroll lintel over a bolection-moulded door leading to the garden.

The interiors of Brankstone Grange are mostly intact, featuring a restrained late Georgian style in the parts designed by Bryce, while the 1896 additions reflect a later 17th-century style.