Culachy House

Culachy House is a Scottish Baronial house built between 1840 and 1850, with later 19th-century alterations. It incorporates and modifies an earlier dwelling and is mainly two stories and an attic over a raised basement, situated on an east sloping site. The exterior is harled, featuring contrasting red ashlar sandstone dressings and margins.

The south-facing entrance front is asymmetrical with four bays, highlighted by an off-centre projecting gabled entrance bay that has a bracketed hood. This entrance is approached by a flight of steps with a moulded ashlar balustrade and terminal ball finials. The entrance features a panelled door and decorative radial glazing in a rectangular fanlight, with a bipartite window on the first floor and a quatrefoil light in the attic. Other bays have hoodmoulded bipartite windows, and three pedimented dormers rise from the wallhead. A small dummy bartizan is located at the southwest angle.

The east gable is symmetrical and flanked by angle drumtowers. The southeast drumtower rises three storeys with a corbelled and crenellated wallhead and a shallow conical roof. The northeast drumtower rises four storeys and an attic, terminating with a simple corbelled wallhead and a decorative pedimented lucarne that fronts a slated conical roof. The drumtowers are linked at the raised basement by a pair of segmental-headed arches that front a loggia.

Additionally, there is a further two-storey and attic range of earlier date that extends north. This range features a simple pilastered basement entrance in the north gable, with a pilastered tripartite window above. The building includes multi-pane glazing, crowsteps, coped ridge and end stacks, and slate roofs.