Kinlochmoidart House

Kinlochmoidart House is a tall Scottish Baronial mansion built in 1884, designed by William Leiper. The building is asymmetrical in plan and appearance, featuring two main storeys of varying height, with a partial attic, and set above a raised basement. The construction is primarily grey rubble with contrasting, tooled and polished red sandstone ashlar dressings.

The principal elevations face east to west. The east entrance front is wide and asymmetrical, with the main entrance situated in a shallow southeast gable. A central projecting gable rises above the principal roofline and incorporates an attic storey. A further northwest projecting gabled wing serves as a service area. A balustraded staircase leads to the raised ground floor entrance, which is framed by a reeded pilastered and corniced doorpiece featuring a crest and inscription above a double leaf panelled door. A secondary entrance is located to the right. The window arrangement is also asymmetrical, and incorporates three linked, stepped, diminutive stair lights with shouldered lintels. A large, round-headed transomed and mullion stair window, alongside a canted transomed oriel in the raised ground floor supported by engaged and chamfered pilasters, are also prominent. Each window is treated uniquely, featuring square or moulded segmental headed lintels with masked or floreated roundels, as well as the monograms CES (Charles Edward Stuart), and the initials RS and MS.

The three-bay south gable is illuminated by varying long, mullioned and transomed windows, lighting the drawing and dining rooms. The long west elevation incorporates a semi-circular drum tower which is lit by four-light windows on both the raised ground and first floors, culminating in a low attic storey and a facetted conical roof. A corbelled bartizan sits at the angle of a shallow, projecting centre gabled range, featuring its own conical roof. This is linked to the northwest angle drum tower, which rises full height, and to a low, single-storey service range to the north. The glazing is varied, incorporating multi-pane upper sashes. Primarily, multi-pane glazing is found in the raised basement, with some east-facing windows featuring small, decorative leaded geometric panes.

Cill and lintel bands connect groupings of windows. Decorative corbelled detailing is present, alongside a moulded eaves cornice and corniced apex, ridge, and end stacks. The building is roofed with slate.

Inside, a small entrance lobby leads to a panelled staircase ascending to a main hall, which is wood-panelled throughout. From the hall, a staircase with turned newels featuring Ionic capitals, turned wooden balusters, and a moulded wooden handrail rises to the first floor, screened by an ornate wooden partition. The drawing room exhibits moulded ribbed detailing to the plaster ceiling, a panelled dado, a deep bowed window seat, and an original carved wood chimney piece featuring small paired engaged flanking columns with Ionic capitals, paired lion's masks and foliated relief decoration to the lintel. The dining room retains its original carved wooden chimney piece within an inglenook, original wallpaper, and original stencilled decoration incorporating the initials RS and MS. One first-floor bedroom contains an original built-in bath and built-in cupboard and drawers. The master bedroom also features original fitted cupboards and drawers. The original brown and white decorative tiling remains in the service quarters, specifically the kitchen and kitchen passages.