Keiss Castle

1755, 3-storey, 5-bay house extended and altered by David

Bryce, 1860 to form mainly 3-storey, L-plan Baronial mansion.

All harled with ashlar dressings and margins.

Principal entrance in west angle of broad SW 1860 wing,

round-headed and cabled moulded with long architraved window

above, with panels above and below. SW wing rises to

4-storey, square corbelled and crenellated tower with cannon

spouts, and angle corbelled stair turret rising above

wallhead with ogee roof and weather vane. 1860 angle

bartizans with fish-scale slated conical roofs corbelled out

in upper storey each side of 1755 west gable. SE elevation

has long 1st floor tripartite (lighting drawing room) with 2

pedimented dormers breaking wallhead above.

Mainly 12-pane glazing; string course; margined and coped end

and ridge stacks; slate roofs.

Interior; principal public rooms in 1860 Bryce wing, situated

on 1st floor and reached by imposing stair case with pendant

newel and barley-sugar twist balusters. Panelled window

shutters, doors and moulded doorpieces, together with marble

chimney pieces, survive from 1860. Decorative moulded ceiling

cornices. Extensive single and 2-storey service ranges to

rear forming U-plan service court close at NW by rubble wall

and square rubble gate piers.

Walled garden; coped rubble walled garden to NE of house

with angle turret with conical roof.

Gate Lodge and Gate piers; David Bryce, dated 1860. Simple

single storey gabled gate lodge. Rubble, tooled dressings.

Gabled porch in north facing re-entrant angle with plank door

with ornate cast-iron hinges; renewed 2-pane glazing;

crowsteps; coped stacks; slate roof. Modern single storey,

single bay addition to rear (south).

High coped quadrant walls, rubble with dressed copes;

terminal piers with shallow pyramidal caps. Renewed pair

simple gate piers; pair cast-iron carriage gates; decorative

cast-iron matching spearhead railings.