Scrabster House

Scrabster House, dated 1834, is a substantial Scottish Renaissance house with later 19th century additions, incorporating parts from the late 18th and early 19th centuries at the north and east. The building is mainly two storeys over a raised basement, featuring six irregular bays on its re-cast south frontage. It is harled with tooled ashlar margins and dressings.

The earliest sections of the house are located at the east and north, with the east entrance concealed by a later 19th century square crenellated tower porch accessed by a flight of steps. The three-bay north facade has a central wallhead gable with an apex stack, connected to a continuous later 19th century extension by a high round-headed recessed bay. The south gable includes a re-used pediment, a re-cut datestone from 1834, and later alterations that raised the upper floor windows through the wallhead in pedimented gablets.

The house was re-cast to the south in the late 19th century, featuring a main entrance at the base of a three-storey square crenellated tower with exaggerated angle bartizans. The round-headed doorway has a hoodmould and is flanked on the right by the gable of the earlier house and on the left by a late 19th century gabled wing with an angle window on the ground floor. The windows primarily have four-pane glazing, and the east entrance boasts an ornate carved Gothic Revival door. Additional features include band courses, crowsteps, apex ball finials, corniced end ridges, wallhead stacks, and slate roofs.

Inside, some rooms feature ornate cornices.