Glenferness House

Glenferness House is a mansion and estate built between 1844 and 1845 by Archibald Simpson, with alterations and additions made in 1869 by A. & W. Reid. The house features a mix of grey and pink rubble with tooled granite dressings and is oriented east to west. The main east front exhibits a simplified classical style, consisting of two storeys with two wide pedimented outer bays and four narrower recessed central bays. A screen that links the outer bays has been glazed, and there is a later projecting porte-cochere supported by Roman Doric columns.

To the north, there is a single-storey irregular range added in 1869, which connects to one of two traditional timber Norwegian houses that flank the outer wings, arranged at angles to create a semi-circular entrance front. The garden front, facing west, has an asymmetrical design centered around a three-storey Italianate tower. An infill between the tower and the southwest gable includes a later two-storey, three-bay dining room with long windows on the ground floor. A single canted bay window extends to full height in the south gable. Various service wings from 1869 are located to the north. The windows feature 8- and 12-pane glazing, some with bracketed cornices, and the building has band courses, corniced ridge and end stacks, projecting joisted eaves, and slate roofs.

Inside, there are some original cornices and chimney pieces. The library in the southeast was shortened in 1869 to create a passage leading to a single-storey billiard room added in the same year. A decorative cast-iron balustrade enhances the staircase.