Lemlair

Lemlair is probably the work of W C Joass, dating to circa 1875. It is an asymmetrical, gabled, two-storey and attic Victorian villa constructed of coursed rubble stone with tooled ashlar dressings. The building follows a roughly L-plan shape, with a square tower rising one storey above the wallhead in the re-entrant angle. The tower's south and east elevations feature tripartite windows, a decorative eaves cornice, and a pyramidal slate roof with gablets and decorative cast-iron brattishing, complete with corner windvanes. A cast-iron balustraded balcony, supported on cast-iron columns, serves as a portico to the entrance at the base of the tower. Canted bay windows extend to the first floor in the southwest and east gables, each featuring a decorative band course and a small terminal balcony below the pointed-headed attic windows in the gable apexes. Similar pointed-headed dormers, with deep trefoil-decorated bargeboards (one in the south elevation and two in the west), are also present. The windows are a mix of 2-, 4-, and 6-pane glazing. Corniced and ridge stacks are visible, along with slate roofs featuring decorative cast-iron ridge cresting and finials. Wings extend to the rear of the property.

Associated with the house is a walled garden designed by W C Joass in 1877, constructed of brick with an ashlar coping along the top. This walled garden extends to the rear of the house.

References include an advertisement for tenders in the Inverness Courier of May 17, 1877, and a listing in Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1883), page 388.