Kinloch House

An earlier house, dating from circa 1700, was encased and

extended by Charles Kinnear of Peddie & Kinnear (Edinburgh)

for his brother, 1859; extensions of 1881; alterations and

interiors, Sir Robert Lorimer, 1921-23. Large Scots baronial

mansion, 2 and 3-storeys plus attics, asymmetrical front with

emphasised crowstepped entrance tower; freestone with fine

dressings, slate roofs, sash windows. Entrance tower with

steep gables, tall chimneys, pediment to attic window,

elaborate moulded corbelling with "crenellated" string course

rising over 2nd floor window, projected doorpiece with

heraldic device cut into lean-to roof. A slender and

featureless lift-tower added to right of entrance. Rest of

frontage to right and left with crowstepped gables, corner

bartizans with slender conical roofs and weathervanes,

advanced bay on right and corbelled oriel treatment on two

floors to left between gabled bays (half-round below,

corbelled square above, sinuous Dutch roof with

ball-finials). Single-storey and attic double gabled wing

(ground floor altered) adjoins on left.