Gatepiers and Boundary Walls at Dunbeg House, North Ballachulish

Dunbeg House, designed by Alexander Ross and Robert J Macbeth of Inverness in 1902-03, is a three-storey and attic, four-bay, rectangular Arts and Crafts style house situated on the shore of Loch Leven. The design incorporates elements of Scots, Alpine, and Art Nouveau styles.

The house's north, south, and west elevations feature broad gables with deeply projecting barge-boarded eaves, supported by decorative timber brackets. Round windows are positioned at the apexes of the north and south gables. A forestair leads to the raised north entrance, which has a pointed-arch porch recess with a moulded stone surround and a round window above. Steps within the porch lead to the first-floor door. A mass concrete balcony, supported on arcaded, rock-face pillars, wraps around the south and east (loch-facing) elevations. The balcony includes a veranda with decorative railings, slender cast iron columns, and spandrels, topped with a lean-to glass roof. Pairs of multi-pane, glazed timber doors provide access to the balcony on the south elevation. Dormer windows break the eaves of the east elevation.

The windows are timber sash and case with a predominantly four-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered in Ballachulish slate, and a tall, coped, and rendered brick chimney stack with decorative banding and red clay cans remains on the south elevation. The rainwater goods are of cast iron.

The interior, observed in 2016, was remodelled around 2010-14, with some partition walls removed. Surviving early 20th-century features include an open-well staircase with decorative carved timber newel posts, handrail, and fluted banisters. Moulded timber arches, architraves, wainscoting, and plaster cornicing with egg & dart or modillion detail are present in principal rooms and passageways. A timber fire surround, influenced by Art Nouveau and moved from the living room to the hall in 2010, features tapering timber columns, stylised floral detail, and a coloured glass inlay, possibly by Wylie and Lochhead of Glasgow. Timber panelled doors have brass doorknobs and finger plates with Art Nouveau designs. The attic room has tongue and groove boarding. The former kitchen on the ground floor retains an early 20th-century range, now boxed in behind a partition wall.

The property is framed by a boundary wall with polychromatic banded courses of local stone, and includes two sets of cylindrical gatepiers in the same style, topped with candle-snuffer caps, ball-finials, and cast iron gates.