Fairburn House

Fairburn House is a Scottish Baronial mansion built between 1877 and 1878 by architects Wardrop and Reid. The house features stugged and sneck coursed rubble with contrasting tooled ashlar dressings. It is mainly three storeys high, with blocks of varying heights surrounding a taller entrance bay and tower.

On the south elevation, there is an off-centre crenellated tower that rises five storeys and includes a corbelled circular angle stair turret at the re-entrant angle with the entrance bay. This tower is topped with a conical roof and a weathervane above its crenellations. The south elevation also has a projecting near-centre gabled three-storey entrance bay, which features a round-headed doorway and an initialled plaque above, along with angle bartizans. The design is asymmetrical, incorporating angle drum towers, bipartite and tripartite windows, as well as two- and three-storey canted bay windows, crowsteps, and gabletted dormers. The windows have 2-pane glazing, and the roof is slate with ridge and end corniced stacks.

Inside, the entrance hall boasts a stone Baronial chimneypiece designed in a medieval style and a wide wooden staircase that leads to the first floor and principal rooms. The drawing room features a pendant plaster ceiling and two marble chimney-pieces. The dining room has a panelled dado and ceiling, both adorned with lozenge detailing, and a high carved and panelled wooden chimney piece that includes an inserted portrait. There is also a further wooden staircase with heavy balusters that rises to the second floor, where the principal bedrooms are located. The nursery suite includes decorative presses, one of which features illustrations from J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan."