Glassburn House

Glassburn House is an earlier 19th-century, symmetrical, two-storey and three-bay gabled house facing southeast. It is constructed of grey rubble stone with contrasting, tooled ashlar sandstone dressings. The central bay is slightly advanced and contains a front entrance beneath a pointed-headed fanlight featuring intersecting tracery, flanked by tripartite windows. Pointed-headed windows are located on the first floor of the front elevation, while elsewhere on the building, windows are square-headed.

A later single-storey and attic, two-bay wing extends to the rear, along with a further later two-storey addition constructed of corrugated iron, also to the rear. The house has multi-pane glazing; a cross sits atop the apex of the central gable; coped end stacks; a gabled roof at the front, and a piended platform to the rear, all covered in slate.

The interior features simple moulded ceiling cornices. A small, semi-circular stairwell is located at the rear, incorporating slender square wooden balusters and a polished handrail.

Originally named Balmore, as indicated on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1872, the house was associated with a Roman Catholic priest who ministered from the property before the construction of the current church in Marydale, Cannich. The area of Strathglass has a tradition of being strongly Roman Catholic. The statutory address is Glassburn.