Assynt House

Assynt House is a late 18th or early 19th century two-storey house built over a raised basement. It features three bays with a central door and has various later embellishments. In the late 19th century, further alterations were made, including the addition of three-storey, single bay wings to the west gable, which project at the southwest and northwest angles. The exterior is harled with ashlar dressings. The slightly advanced centre bay, which is part of the earlier house, is accessed by a flight of steps that oversails the raised basement, featuring an original cast-iron balustrade with palmette detailing, and there is a projecting stairwell at the rear.

Around 1840, dummy bartizans were added to flank the centre projecting bay at the wallhead, along with a crenellated parapet with gables at both the front and rear from the same period. The later 19th century wings, built after 1875, contain a library and dining room, featuring an oriel window in the first floor of the south gable (with a similar oriel inserted in the east gable) and bipartite windows in the west gable. These wings also include a large dummy angle bartizan, crowstepped gables, and crenellated parapets.

The house primarily has 12-pane glazing, band courses, rusticated quoins, twin ridge stacks on the older house, wallhead stacks on the new wings, and slate roofs. Inside, the ground floor of the early house features plaster cornices with palmette detailing, while the later 19th century library and dining room are pine lined, complete with original bookcases and chimney pieces.