Dairy Cottage, Dunrobin Mains, Dunrobin Castle

Dairy Cottage is a 19th-century cottage orne situated at Dunrobin Mains, near Dunrobin Castle. It is a single-storey building with an asymmetrical composition and an attic. The walls are of coursed, tooled rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. The south-facing (sea-facing) two-bay frontage features paired gabled dormers rising from the wallhead. A large drum tower is located at the northeast corner, connected to the main building by a single bay with a corniced entrance. The drum tower rises above the wallhead and features decorative corbelling in its upper section, along with two gabled dormers set within a conical bellcast roof, which terminates with a large metal ventilator and windvane. The windows are mainly simple four-pane sashes, with some bipartites. A central ridge stack is present. The roofs are bellcast slate roofs with apex finials.

Adjacent to the cottage is a mid-19th-century milking parlour. This is a long, low rectangular building with a single storey and a loft. A centre entrance, sheltered by a bracketted canopy forming a balcony to the loft within the attic, is on the south side. The walls are of harl pointed rubble with contrasting tooled sandstone dressings. Single windows are set high, flanking the centre door. Short, single-storey, single-bay wings project from the south gable, incorporating narrow slit windows and end doors. The roof is a shallow jerkin-headed slate with deep, joisted eaves. A large door has been inserted into the west elevation. The interior is gutted.

The building is attributed to the style of George Devey and the drum tower was likely formerly used as a dairy.