Barham House

Barham House is a large, asymmetrical picturesque mansion built in three main phases: around 1786, circa 1880, and 1909. It is a single-storey structure with attics and features a variety of roof levels, constructed from droved ashlar. The original section consists of a three-bay house with a single bay wing to the east. The north and south elevations each have advanced and gabled inner bays, flanked by windows that maintain a geometric glazing pattern. The north elevation exhibits Gothic elements, including a central pointed window set in a recessed panel, while the south elevation features a canted central window and a unique geometric glazing pattern that has been preserved in later extensions.

A single bay wing was added to the west, and the adjoining bay of the house was raised with gables around 1880. Additional wings were constructed to the east and west in 1909 by the architects Gillespie and Scott of St Andrews. The west wing has two bays on the south elevation, with a recessed door that includes a fanlight and sidelights behind a broad, roll-moulded depressed-arched opening in the left bay. Above this door, there is a window with a shaped dormer head, inscribed and dated N(airn). The advanced gabled right bay features an apex stack that is corbelled at the eaves level. The west elevation has three bays, with a central window that is canted to full height and a gable above, along with a tripartite window in the right bay. The east wing includes a gabled bay to the south and a low domestic block against the east gable, which has a porch in the re-entrant angle. Most gables are crow-stepped or have kneelers, with corniced apexes and axial stacks, all beneath a slate roof.

Inside, the original house features an eight-sided central hall with a balcony above, alongside a similarly proportioned eight-sided room to the southwest, both adorned with simple cornice plasterwork.