Achara House

Achara House is a large, three-storey house dating to around 1900, built on the site of an earlier dwelling and incorporating elements of a 19th-century baronial structure. The house faces northwest and has four bays. It is harled with extensive dressings and margins made of tooled ashlar. The main entrance is located within a single-storey, projecting bowed porch on the return southwest elevation. The porch has a bowed, piended slate roof and an entrance door approached by a shallow flight of steps, framed by three renewed crests and insignia.

The northwest garden front features a shallow, wide bay window with mullions and transoms, as well as paired, mullioned and transomed bipartites. The fenestration of the first floor is regular, and four dormers break the second-floor wallhead, each with shaped or triangular polished ashlar pediments displaying carved insignia. Mid-to-late 19th-century angle bartizans frame the front elevation, projecting from the second-storey angles with conical, bellcast slated roofs and leaded finials. The windows have multi-pane glazing. Other features include crowsteps, coped end and ridge stacks, and slate roofs.

The house was built for Charles Stewart of Achara. Alterations carried out around 1900 were reportedly designed by Sir Robert Lorimer. Various outbuildings originally around the house have been converted into dwellings and a garage. A 1930s photograph shows a more extensive service range that has since been demolished.