Steading Range And Cottages, Dalmore House

The cottages at Dalmore House date from around 1935, representing a rebuilding following a fire. This reconstruction likely incorporated elements of an earlier house designed by A Maitland & Sons around 1895. The main house is a two-story, L-shaped Scots Baronial mansion, characterized by crowstepped gables, a corbelled turret, and a crenellated parapet. The construction uses rock-faced sandstone with polished ashlar dressings, incorporating both a base and a band course. Segmental-headed, moulded doorcases feature, along with chamfered arrises and stone mullions.

The northeast (entrance) elevation is six bays wide. A deep-set door is centrally positioned within an advanced gabled bay to the left, above which is a carved panel depicting a bird (possibly a falcon) surmounting a crown and the inscription 'TEMPLA QURAM DELECTA'. A tripartite window is situated above the doorway on the first floor, with narrow lights on the returns to each floor. A narrow stair tower is located in the re-entrant angle to the right, corbelled out over the ground floor, displaying two lights at the first floor and two additional lights below the corbel course, all leading to a slated conical roof with a weathervane. A four-part window is found in the bay to the right at ground level, followed by two bays each with a bipartite window. A slightly advanced gabled bay is present with a window to the outer right and bipartite windows to each bay at the first floor, with a prominent shouldered stack breaking the eaves between bays 3 and 4. A blank bay exists to the outer left, again with a shouldered stack.

The southeast elevation is five bays wide, with angled outer bays. A gabled bay is centered with a modern door and flanking lights within a canted bay at ground level, with a tripartite window above, and further tripartite windows to each floor in the flanking and outer bays, the latter also with single lights on the returns.

The southwest elevation is asymmetrical, combining various elements, including an advanced wing to the left with an angled bay, prominent stacks, and gabled bays.

The windows are fitted with plate glass glazing in casement frames with multi-pane upper lights. The roof is covered in grey slate, and the ashlar stacks are coped with cans.

The interior, unseen during a 1998 inspection, includes timber panelling, cornicing, and some original fireplaces.

Several ancillary buildings are present, including former stables, cottages, and a small steading, constructed of coursed rubble with slated, piended, and gabled roofs. These buildings exhibit deeply overhanging eaves, decorative bargeboarding, diminutive ridge ventilators, and decorative ridge tiles along with boarded timber doors and small-pane glazing patterns. A separate block of detached dwelling houses stands to the southwest of the stables range, distinguished by unusual construction, potentially incorporating asbestos cladding and diamond-pattern asbestos tiles.

The gateway is marked by square-section, pyramidally-coped sandstone gatepiers.