Auchindoune House

Mid 18th century, 2-storey and attic house, wide 3 bays. Harl

pointed rubble, tooled ashlar dressings. Projecting square

porch, with piended slate roof, later round-headed entrance

and fanlight, masks centre door, with additional later window

at right. 2 small piended dormers. Single windows in ground

floor, east; each gable has narrow slit vent to light attic.

12-pane glazing; end stacks; slate roof. Single storey and

attic, 2-bay mid 19th century rear wing.

Set back and flanking each gable is short length of

crenellated walling, with re-used marriage stone dated 1628

inserted at west.

Interior: simple moulded doorpieces; original fielded

panelled doors in older part of house. 2 18th century carved

marble chimney pieces in east drawing room (formerly 2

rooms); 1, possibly by John Cheere (died 1787), from former

Cawdor property in Wales, the second said to have come from

a house in Westminster Abbey precincts, London, brought north

by an earlier Campbell of Cawdor. Elliptical stair with

cantilevered stone treads and simple balusters.