Balnakeil House

Balnakeil House is a significant 18th-century building, constructed in 1744. It is a two-storey house with an attic, designed in a symmetrical U-plan. The façade features four central bays and projecting outer wings that have three-bay inner faces, creating a small paved courtyard. The house is harled, with polished ashlar margins and dressings.

On the south elevation, the windows are notable for having a blocked central window, which was likely the Minister's window. The entrances are located in the outer bays of the long courtyard, featuring bolection-moulded door pieces and 19th-century panelled doors, with the right-hand door being false. There are two ground floor windows situated between the doorways. Each return wing has two later windows and a door on the courtyard elevation, all with rendered margins. The original front windows have half-round moulding, while the rear windows feature plain chamfers. The centre front has two paired diminutive piended dormers. The large first-floor windows have 12-pane glazing, and the ground floor windows have 9-pane glazing.

Architectural details include cavetto skewputts, crowsteps, coped end stacks, and a large lateral rear stack serving the first-floor principal room. The roof is made of West Highland slate.

Inside, the house retains an original stone staircase with half-round moulding on the risers. The principal room occupies the central four bays of the first floor and features original raised and fielded panelling in one room of the east wing, along with a moulded and lugged doorpiece, although the door itself is from the 19th century. Two 18th-century moulded chimney pieces are still present, while other areas have undergone later 19th-century alterations and decoration. The house also includes vaulted cellars.

The property features a large walled garden, which has a lintel dated 1863, and is enclosed by high coped rubble walls. The gate piers and walls are from the later 19th century, consisting of a pair of square tooled rubble gate piers topped with moulded pyramidal caps. Additionally, there are extensive drystone walls with drystone coping.