Craigtoun Park

Craigtoun Park is an early Renaissance mansion with Scottish Baronial details, constructed in 1903 by Paul Waterhouse of Alfred Waterhouse & Son. The building is of hammer-dressed pink sandstone with polished ashlar dressings, featuring small-paned windows and a Westmoreland slated roof with crested ridge tiles, and clustered octagon and lozenge stacks.

The west entrance elevation has a recessed, gabled bay with a round arched open porch, arcaded band, and three slim windows above which are set at octagonal angles. A single window links to a gable containing two ground-floor windows, three first-floor windows, and three attic windows. To the right is a wide five-light stone mullioned and transomed hall window bay with an arcaded parapet, a segmentally over-arched bipartite window to its right, two small windows, two larger windows, and a left-hand mullioned and transomed window above. A corbelled and canted three-light oriel bay with a denticulated gablet rises above, along with a tall shafted stack and a corbelled angle turret with a conical roof at attic level.

A dwarf walled circular forecourt provides an entrance, featuring three panelled-pier gateways and arched gateways with wrought-iron gates and ball finials.

The north frontage displays two storeys, an attic, and a full basement, reflecting the fall of the ground. A square gabled pavilion sits on the north end of the west front, alongside a large mullioned stair window of three mullioned and double transomed lights. A semi-octagonal stair turret rises to a square attic stage with two deeply recessed windows and a pyramid roof. A single bay of two-light mezzanine windows is separated by a pilaster strip from a four-window section, which links to an advanced left-hand gable with a broad, shallow bow of four lights above which sits a three-light attic window. A canted bay exists on the east gable, with a short wing returning south, and a conservatory running south from it at the main floor level; the conservatory roof is six-planed and capped with an octagonal turret.

The south frontage has extensive main floor and basement level additions to the sides, which are framed by corbelled angle turrets flanking gabled rectangular bays of three lights with shafted angles. The asymmetrical central frontage has two gables of unequal size, the central one having two windows, flanked by octagonal turrets. Lions are present on the balustrading of the south terrace.

The interior is opulent, featuring a panelled hall and a marble balustrade staircase with an upper arcade, and a painted coffered ceiling.