Boleskine House

Boleskine House is a single-storey, irregular seven-bay house that began construction in the late 18th century and was continuously enlarged until around 1830. The house features projecting outer bays with truncated gables and is finished in pink harling with ashlar dressings and margins, some of which are rendered. The current southeast front likely replaced the northwest side.

The centre of the house has a projecting pilastered ashlar bay with an entrance flanked by narrow sidelights. A porch connects to the outer bays through a shallow loggia supported by slender Roman Doric columns, topped with a deep continuous entablature. The northwest elevation includes a round-headed window in the gabled centre bay, which may have been a former entrance, and three projecting bowed bays, with one window altered in a modern style. The second and sixth bays have bowed piended roofs, while the outer bays feature Venetian windows.

The windows have multi-pane glazing, and the building displays long and short channelled ashlar quoins. The symmetrical pair of ridge and panelled end wallhead stacks complement the slate roofs. An east service door is concealed by a later single-storey, single-bay extension.

Inside, a long corridor runs the full length of the house along the southeast front, likely created in the early 19th century. Panelled arches and screens flank the centre entrance bay. The two public rooms feature simple plaster cornices and bowed bay windows that face northwest.